Lessingia tenuis
Lessingia nana
spring lessingia
dwarf lessingia, little lessingia
erect, green to tan, glabrous or villous.
decumbent, tan, woolly.
basal withering by flowering;
cauline margins entire or dentate to pinnately lobed, faces sometimes gland-dotted, abaxial villous to tomentose.
basal withering by flowering;
cauline margins entire, faces gland-dotted (in pits), abaxial woolly.
obconic, 4–7 mm.
obconic, 7–10 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.
10–20;
corollas white or pale lavender (color more intense in tubes);
style-branch appendages truncate-penicillate, 0.2–0.4 mm.
purple-tipped, faces glabrous or villous, gland-dotted;
inner scarious.
green, faces woolly, gland-dotted;
inner cartilaginous (stiff, white).
borne singly, at ends of branchlets.
borne singly or in corymbiform arrays, in axils of leaves or at ends of branchlets.
tan, equal to or longer than cypselae.
pink to red, longer than cypselae.
= 10.
= 10.
Lessingia tenuis
Lessingia nana
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.)
Lessingia nana is known from the northern Great Central Valley, adjacent foothills of the Sierra Nevada, and foothills of the Cascade Range.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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