Lessingia tenuis
Lessingia virgata
spring lessingia
wand lessingia
erect, green to tan, glabrous or villous.
erect, tan, villous to 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), rarely also stipitate-glandular (glands sometimesobscured by tomentum), abaxial usually woolly, sometimes villous.
obconic, 4–7 mm.
narrowly obconic, 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.
3–6;
corollas usually white, sometimes pale lavender (color more intense in tubes);
style-branch appendages truncate-penicillate or lanceolate, 0.3–0.9 mm.
purple-tipped, faces glabrous or villous, gland-dotted;
inner scarious.
green or purple-tipped, faces villous to woolly, gland-dotted or not;
inner scarious.
borne singly, at ends of branchlets.
borne singly or in corymbiform arrays, usually in axils of leaves.
tan, equal to or longer than cypselae.
white or tan, longer than cypselae.
= 10.
= 10.
Lessingia tenuis
Lessingia virgata
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 virgata is known from the foothills of the Cascade Range, foothills of the northern and central Sierra Nevada, and the northeastern Great Valley.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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