Perityle ciliata |
Perityle stansburyi |
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fringe rock daisy, hairy rock-daisy |
Stansbury's Rock daisy |
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Habit | Subshrubs, 15–30 cm (in rock crevices, stems relatively many, erect to pendulous); sparsely to densely short-hairy, glandular. | Perennials or subshrubs, 7–45 cm (often dense clumps to 60 cm across); hirtellous. |
Leaves | petioles 2–15 mm; blades deltate-ovate to ovate-rhombic, 6–23 × 5–24 mm, margins usually entire or serrate to serrate-crenate, sometimes shallow-lobed. |
petioles 3–10 mm; blades subdeltate, suborbiculate, or subovate, 3–14 × 3–15 mm, margins usually 2–5-lobed or serrate, sometimes subentire or 3-lobed. |
Peduncles | 5–25 mm. |
5–60 mm. |
Involucres | campanulate. |
campanulate. |
Ray florets | 6–10; corollas white, sometimes pink tinged, laminae broadly oblong to oblong-elliptic, 3–7 × 1.5–3 mm. |
6–14; corollas yellow, laminae 3–6 × 1.2–3 mm. |
Disc florets | 30–40; corollas yellow, often purple tinged, tubes 0.8–1 mm, throats tubular to tubular-funnelform, 1.2–1.4 mm, lobes 0.3–0.4 mm. |
60–80; corollas yellow, tubes 1.2–1.5 mm, throats tubular to subfunnelform, 2.4–3 mm, lobes 0.4–0.6 mm. |
Phyllaries | 13–20, linear-lanceolate to narrow-ovate, 4–5.5 × 1–2 mm. |
14–22, lanceolate to broadly oblanceolate, 5–6 × 1–2 mm. |
Heads | in corymbiform arrays, 5–7 × 5.5–7 mm. |
borne singly or in corymbiform arrays, 7–8 × 5–9 mm. |
Cypselae | linear-oblong to oblanceolate, 2–2.8 mm, margins prominently calloused, long-ciliate; pappi of 2(–3+) barbellulate bristles 1.5–2.5 mm plus crowns of hyaline, laciniate scales. |
narrowly oblanceolate, 2–3.5 mm, margins thin-calloused, short-hairy; pappi of single, ± stout bristles 2.5–4 mm plus crowns of vestigial, hyaline scales. |
2n | = 34. |
= 34. |
Perityle ciliata |
Perityle stansburyi |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–fall. | Flowering spring–fall. |
Habitat | In rock crevices | Rock crevices |
Elevation | 1100–2500 m (3600–8200 ft) | 1200–2600 m (3900–8500 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ
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NV; UT |
Discussion | Perityle ciliata is found only in the mountains of central Arizona in Apache, Coconino, Gila, Mohave, and Yavapai counties. It appears to be most closely related to P. coronopifolia. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Perityle stansburii with its large habit, relatively broad leaves, radiate heads, bristle pappus, chromosome number, and wide distribution, fills most expectations as the ancestral taxon of the group of related species called the “southwestern alliance.” This natural assemblage of taxa, which is thought to have evolved through geographic displacement and subsequent genetic differentiation, includes P. congesta, P. gracilis, P. intricata, P. inyoensis, P. megalocephala, P. specuicola, P. tenella, and P. villosa. These taxa, which are found mostly to the south and west of P. stansburii, all have rayless heads and may or may not have pappus bristles. In western and northwestern Utah and adjacent Nevada, P. stansburii occurs in crevices of rock exposures. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 21, p. 322. | FNA vol. 21, p. 326. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Peritylinae > Perityle > sect. Perityle | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Peritylinae > Perityle > sect. Laphamia |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Laphamia ciliata | Laphamia stansburii |
Name authority | (L. H. Dewey) Rydberg: in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl. 34: 17. (1914) | (A. Gray) J. F. Macbride: Contr. Gray Herb. 56: 39. (1918) |
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