Luina hypoleuca |
Luina serpentina |
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little-leaf luina, little-leaf silverback, silver-back luina |
colonial luina, creeping silverback |
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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. |
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Luina hypoleuca |
Luina serpentina |
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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 |
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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 628. | FNA vol. 20, p. 628. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Luina | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Luina |
Sibling taxa | ||
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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