Perityle ciliata |
Perityle staurophylla |
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fringe rock daisy, hairy rock-daisy |
New Mexico 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, 15–40 cm (often forming dense clumps, densely leafy); glabrous or puberulent. | ||||
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 10–25(–40) mm; blades usually deeply divided, 5–30 × 7–25 mm, lobes 3, relatively broad to linear, usually secondarily lobed, cleft, or parted, often ± cruciform, sometimes almost entire. |
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Peduncles | 5–25 mm. |
4–25 mm. |
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Involucres | campanulate. |
campanulate. |
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Ray florets | 6–10; corollas white, sometimes pink tinged, laminae broadly oblong to oblong-elliptic, 3–7 × 1.5–3 mm. |
0, or 4–8; corollas yellow, laminae oblong, 3.6–4.8 × 1.2–2.2 mm. |
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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. |
40–50; corollas yellow, tubes 1.5–1.6 mm, throats subtubular to narrowly funnelform, 1.5–2 mm, lobes 0.6–0.8 mm. |
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Phyllaries | 13–20, linear-lanceolate to narrow-ovate, 4–5.5 × 1–2 mm. |
13–16(–22), sublanceolate, 3.4–4 × 0.7–1.1(–1.8) mm. |
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Heads | in corymbiform arrays, 5–7 × 5.5–7 mm. |
usually in corymbiform arrays, sometimes borne singly, 6–7.5 × 4.5–6 mm. |
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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. |
oblanceolate, 1.8–2.3(–2.7) mm, margins thin-calloused, short-hairy; pappi of 2–3(–6) bristles 1.8–2.5 mm (at least the longer), often plus minute, hyaline scales. |
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2n | = 34. |
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Perityle ciliata |
Perityle staurophylla |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–fall. | |||||
Habitat | In rock crevices | |||||
Elevation | 1100–2500 m (3600–8200 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
AZ
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NM |
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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.) |
Varieties 2 (2 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. 322. | FNA vol. 21, p. 333. | ||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Peritylinae > Perityle > sect. Perityle | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Peritylinae > Perityle > sect. Laphamia | ||||
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Synonyms | Laphamia ciliata | Laphamia staurophylla | ||||
Name authority | (L. H. Dewey) Rydberg: in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl. 34: 17. (1914) | (Barneby) Shinners: SouthW. Naturalist 4: 205. (1959) | ||||
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