Pentachaeta fragilis |
Pentachaeta bellidiflora |
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fragile pentachaeta, fragile pygmy daisy |
white-ray pentachaeta, whiteray pygmydaisy |
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Habit | Plants 4–16 cm. | Plants 6–17 cm. |
Stems | diffusely branched. |
simple or with 1–2 primary branches, glabrous or sparsely hirsuto-pilose. |
Leaf | blades spatulate to linear-oblanceolate, 5–15(–25) × 1–3 mm. |
blades linear, 8–45 × ca. 1 mm (glabrous or margins ciliate). |
Involucres | campanulate. |
campanulate. |
Ray florets | 7–12; corollas yellow, laminae ca. 5 mm. |
5–16; corollas white, sometimes reddish-tinged abaxially, laminae 3–6 mm. |
Disc florets | 10–23; corollas yellow, narrowly funnelform, not contracted at lobes, lobes 5. |
16–38; corollas yellow, narrowly funnelform, not contracted at lobes, lobes 5. |
Phyllaries | in 2(–3) series, elliptic to obovate, glabrous. |
in 2–3 series, elliptic to obovate, glabrous. |
Pappi | of (8–)15–20 bristles, not dilated at base. |
usually of 5 bristles slightly or not dilated at bases, rarely 0. |
2n | = 18. |
= 18. |
Pentachaeta fragilis |
Pentachaeta bellidiflora |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Jun. | Flowering Mar–May. |
Habitat | Grassy areas | Grassy, rocky areas |
Elevation | 50–2300 m (200–7500 ft) | 0–700 m (0–2300 ft) |
Distribution |
CA |
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. |
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Synonyms | Chaetopappa fragilis | Chaetopappa bellidiflora |
Name authority | Brandegee: Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 6: 170. (1915) | Greene: Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1: 86. (1885) |
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