Flora of North America species comparison

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Luina hypoleuca

little-leaf luina, little-leaf silverback, silver-back luina
Stems

spreading or erect.
Leaves

sessile;

blades ovate to lanceolate, 18–65 × 7–40 mm, abaxially lanate, adaxially usually glabrous and shiny, rarely sparsely tomentulose, then usually glabrescent.
Peduncles

10–50 mm.
Florets

11–23;

corollas pale yellow, 8–11 mm.
Phyllaries

6–14, ovate to lanceolate, 5–9 mm.
Cypselae

3–4 mm, 9-nerved, glabrous or strigose;

pappi of 80–120 bristles 8–10 mm.
2n

= 60.

Luina hypoleuca
Phenology Flowering summer.
Habitat Open, usually rocky, places, sometimes on serpentine
Elevation 70–2100 m (200–6900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; OR; WA; BC
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Source FNA vol. 20, p. 628.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Luina
Sibling taxa
L. serpentina
Name authority Bentham: Hooker’s Icon. Pl. 12: 36, plate 1139. (1873)
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