Flora of North America species comparison

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Monolopia lanceolata

common hillside daisy, common monolopia
Leaves

oblanceolate to lance-linear.
Peduncles

10–130 mm.
Involucres

6–10 mm.
Ray florets

± 8;

corollas yellow, laminae 10–20 mm, ± equally 3-lobed.
Disc florets

60–100.
Phyllaries

± 8, usually distinct, sometimes connate to 1/2 their lengths, elliptic to oblanceolate, apices acuminate.
Cypselae

obcompressed, 2–4 mm, 3-angled (ray), 4-angled (disc), uniformly gray-strigose.
2n

= 20.

Monolopia lanceolata
Phenology Flowering Feb–Jun.
Habitat Clayey areas in grasslands or openings in chaparral or oak or foothill woodlands
Elevation 50–1600 m (200–5200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
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Source FNA vol. 21, p. 350.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Baeriinae > Monolopia
Sibling taxa
M. congdonii, M. gracilens, M. major, M. stricta
Name authority Nuttall: Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 4: 21. (1848)
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