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

colonial luina, creeping silverback

Stems

spreading or erect.

sprawling to 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.

petiolate;

blades lanceolate, 50–120 × 6–20 mm, abaxially lanate, adaxially loosely tomentose.

Peduncles

10–50 mm.

15–35 mm.

Florets

11–23;

corollas pale yellow, 8–11 mm.

13–26;

corollas yellow, 11–12 mm.

Phyllaries

6–14, ovate to lanceolate, 5–9 mm.

10–14, linear, 9–10 mm.

Cypselae

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

pappi of 80–120 bristles 8–10 mm.

5–6 mm, 12–15-nerved, glabrous;

pappi of ca. 125 bristles 10–11 mm.

2n

= 60.

Luina hypoleuca

Luina serpentina

Phenology Flowering summer. Flowering summer.
Habitat Open, usually rocky, places, sometimes on serpentine Serpentine soils
Elevation 70–2100 m (200–6900 ft) ca. 1000 m (ca. 3300 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; OR; WA; BC
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OR
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Discussion

Of conservation concern.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 20, p. 628. FNA vol. 20, p. 628.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Luina Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Luina
Sibling taxa
L. serpentina
L. hypoleuca
Name authority Bentham: Hooker’s Icon. Pl. 12: 36, plate 1139. (1873) Cronquist: in C. L. Hitchcock et al., Vasc. Pl. Pacif. N.W. 5: 257, unnumb. fig. [upper right]. (1955)
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