Monolopia lanceolata |
Monolopia |
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common hillside daisy, common monolopia |
hillside daisy, monolopia |
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Habit | Dioecious. | |||||||||||||||||
Plants | 3–14 cm (bases woody). |
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Stolons | none. |
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Leaves | oblanceolate to lance-linear. |
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Basal leaves | absent at flowering. |
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Cauline leaves | linear-lanceolate to cuneate-oblanceolate, 11–35 × 2–6 mm, acute, not flagged (apices acute), faces gray-pubescent. |
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Peduncles | 10–130 mm. |
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Involucres | 6–10 mm. |
staminate 6–8 mm; pistillate 6–8 mm. |
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Ray florets | ± 8; corollas yellow, laminae 10–20 mm, ± equally 3-lobed. |
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Disc florets | 60–100. |
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Corollas | staminate 3–4.5 mm; pistillate 5–6 mm. |
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Phyllaries | ± 8, usually distinct, sometimes connate to 1/2 their lengths, elliptic to oblanceolate, apices acuminate. |
distally red to pink, light brown, or white. |
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Heads | 3–25 in corymbiform to paniculiform arrays. |
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Cypselae | obcompressed, 2–4 mm, 3-angled (ray), 4-angled (disc), uniformly gray-strigose. |
2–2.5 mm, pubescent and papillate; pappi: staminate 6–7 mm (capillary); pistillate 6–7 mm. |
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2n | = 20. |
= 28. |
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Monolopia lanceolata |
Monolopia |
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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 |
CA
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CA |
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Discussion | Species 5 (5 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 21, p. 350. | FNA vol. 21, p. 349. | ||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Baeriinae > Monolopia | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Baeriinae | ||||||||||||||||
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Name authority | Nuttall: Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 4: 21. (1848) | de Candolle: in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. L. P. de Candolle, Prodr. 6: 74. (1838) | ||||||||||||||||
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