Pentachaeta aurea |
Pentachaeta bellidiflora |
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golden chaetopappa, golden-ray pentachaeta |
white-ray pentachaeta, whiteray pygmydaisy |
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Habit | Plants 5–36 cm. | Plants 6–17 cm. |
Stems | branched. |
simple or with 1–2 primary branches, glabrous or sparsely hirsuto-pilose. |
Leaf | blades linear, 10–35(–55) × 1(–3) mm. |
blades linear, 8–45 × ca. 1 mm (glabrous or margins ciliate). |
Involucres | turbinate. |
campanulate. |
Ray florets | 14–52; corollas yellow to brownish orange, laminae 3–12 mm. |
5–16; corollas white, sometimes reddish-tinged abaxially, laminae 3–6 mm. |
Disc florets | 30–90; corollas yellow, narrowly funnelform, not contracted at lobes, lobes 5. |
16–38; corollas yellow, narrowly funnelform, not contracted at lobes, lobes 5. |
Phyllaries | in 4–5-series, ovate-elliptic to oblong-elliptic, usually glabrous, rarely sparsely short-strigose. |
in 2–3 series, elliptic to obovate, glabrous. |
Pappi | of 5(–8) bristles, prominently dilated at bases. |
usually of 5 bristles slightly or not dilated at bases, rarely 0. |
2n | = 18. |
= 18. |
Pentachaeta aurea |
Pentachaeta bellidiflora |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jul. | Flowering Mar–May. |
Habitat | Grassy or shrubby areas | Grassy, rocky areas |
Elevation | 30–2000 m (100–6600 ft) | 0–700 m (0–2300 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; Mexico (nw Baja California)
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CA
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Discussion | Of conservation concern. Pentachaeta bellidiflora grows in the San Francisco Bay region. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 48. | FNA vol. 20, p. 48. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Pentachaeta | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Pentachaeta |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Chaetopappa aurea | Chaetopappa bellidiflora |
Name authority | Nuttall: Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s. 7: 336. (1840) | Greene: Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1: 86. (1885) |
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