Lessingia tenuis
Lessingia micradenia
spring lessingia
little glandular lessingia, Mt. Tamalpais lessingia
erect, green to tan, glabrous or villous.
erect, tan to brown, glabrous.
basal withering by flowering;
cauline margins entire or dentate to pinnately lobed, faces sometimes gland-dotted, abaxial villous to tomentose.
basal withering before flowering;
cauline margins entire, faces usually eglandular, sometimes sparsely stipitate-glandular, abaxial glabrous or villous.
obconic, 4–7 mm.
cylindric to narrowly obconic, 4–6 mm.
10–25;
corollas yellow (occasionally pink or suffused with purple in peripheral florets; tubes with brown-purple band inside);
style-branch appendages truncate-penicillate, 0.1–0.2 mm.
3–10;
corollas white to pale lavender (color more intense in tubes);
style-branch appendages truncate-penicillate, 0.1–0.3 mm.
purple-tipped, faces glabrous or villous, gland-dotted;
inner scarious.
purple-tipped, faces glabrous, stipitate-glandular or gland-dotted;
inner scarious.
borne singly, at ends of branchlets.
borne ± singly, at ends of branchlets.
tan, equal to or longer than cypselae.
tan, equal to or shorter than cypselae.
= 10.
Lessingia tenuis
Lessingia micradenia
Lessingia tenuis is known from the central and southern San Francisco Bay area through the South Coast Range to Ventura County.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Phyllaries stipitate-glandular | var. micradenia |
1. Phyllaries not stipitate-glandular (sessile-glandular) | var. glabrata |
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