Lessingia tenuis
Lessingia nemaclada
spring lessingia
slenderstem lessingia, thread stem lessingia
erect, green to tan, glabrous or villous.
erect, tan to brown, glabrous or villous.
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) and sometimes stipitate-glandular, abaxial glabrous or villous to tomentose.
obconic, 4–7 mm.
narrowly obconic, 5–6 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 usually white, sometimes pale lavender (color more intense in tubes);
style-branch appendages usually lanceolate, sometimes truncate-penicillate, 0.4–1 mm.
purple-tipped, faces glabrous or villous, gland-dotted;
inner scarious.
usually purple-tipped, faces glabrous, stipitate-glandular and gland-dotted;
inner scarious.
borne singly, at ends of branchlets.
borne singly or in corymbiform arrays, usually at ends of branchlets.
tan, equal to or longer than cypselae.
tan, equaling or longer than cypselae.
= 10.
= 10, 12.
Lessingia tenuis
Lessingia nemaclada
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 nemaclada is widespread in central and northern California (except near the coast) and is morphologically variable.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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