Lessingia tenuis
Lessingia ramulosa
spring lessingia
Sonoma lessingia
erect, green to tan, glabrous or villous.
erect, tan, stipitate-glandular.
basal withering by flowering;
cauline margins entire or dentate to pinnately lobed, faces sometimes gland-dotted, abaxial villous to tomentose.
basal usually persistent at flowering;
cauline margins entire, faces stipitate-glandular, abaxial glabrous or glabrate.
obconic, 4–7 mm.
hemispheric to campanulate, 5–7 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.
5–15;
corollas 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, glabrous, stipitate-glandular;
inner scarious.
borne singly, at ends of branchlets.
borne singly, at ends of branchlets.
tan, equal to or longer than cypselae.
tan, longer than cypselae.
= 10.
= 10.
Lessingia tenuis
Lessingia ramulosa
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 ramulosa is known from the northern San Francisco Bay area and North Coast ranges.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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