Perityle coronopifolia |
Perityle rupestris |
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Arizona rockdaisy, crow-foot rock daisy |
leafy rock daisy |
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Habit | Subshrubs, 6–36 cm (in rock crevices, stems relatively many, erect or pendulous, very leafy); sparsely to densely grayish hairy. | Plants 4–25(–35)+ cm (profusely branched, leafy); hirsute, pilose, or puberulent. | ||||
Leaves | petioles 2–8(–12) mm; blades pedately 3-lobed (lobes spatulate or linear), or 2–3-pinnatifid (lobes linear-filiform), 4–30 × 4–20 mm, ultimate margins entire. |
petioles 3–13 mm; blades ovate, subcordate, subdeltate, or subreniform, 5–17(–22) × 5–17(–30) mm, margins almost entire to irregularly serrate or serrate-lobed (faces pilose to hirsute). |
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Peduncles | 7–15 mm. |
2–13(–20) mm. |
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Involucres | campanulate. |
subcylindric, subfunnelform, or narrowly campanulate. |
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Ray florets | 8–12; corollas white, laminae broadly oblong or oblong-elliptic to subspatulate, 3–7 × 2–3 mm. |
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Disc florets | 30–40; corollas yellow, often purple tinged, tubes 0.8–1 mm, throats tubular, tubular-funnelform, or tubular-campanulate, 1–1.3 mm, lobes 0.3–0.4 mm. |
8–16; corollas yellow or white, tubes 0.8–1.3 mm, throats tubular to subfunnelform, 1.8–3 mm, lobes 0.5–1.3 mm. |
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Phyllaries | 2–16, linear-lanceolate to narrow-ovate, 3.5–5 × 0.5–1.5 mm. |
8–10(–14), narrowly lanceolate to oblanceolate, 3.5–7 × 1–2 mm. |
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Heads | (2–5) in corymbiform arrays, 5–6.5 × 5–6 mm. |
borne singly or in corymbiform arrays, 6–8 × 3–5 mm. |
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Cypselae | linear-oblong to narrowly oblanceolate, 1.8–2.5 mm, margins usually prominently calloused, sometimes thin, usually ciliate; pappi of 2(–3+) barbellulate bristles 1.5–2.5 mm plus crowns of hyaline, laciniate scales. |
(1.8–)2–2.5 mm; pappi of (16–)20–30 bristles 1–3(–3.5) mm. |
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2n | = 34. |
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Perityle coronopifolia |
Perityle rupestris |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–fall. | |||||
Habitat | Rock and cliff faces | |||||
Elevation | 1000–2600 m (3300–8500 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
AZ; NM; Mexico (Chihuahua)
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TX |
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Discussion | Perityle coronopifolia is widespread in south-central and southeastern Arizona, and southwestern and south-central New Mexico. The combination of white rays, often pinnatifid leaves, and perennial habit distinguish it. (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. 319. | ||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Peritylinae > Perityle > sect. Perityle | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Peritylinae > Perityle > sect. Pappothrix | ||||
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Synonyms | Laphamia coronopifolia | Laphamia rupestris, Pappothrix rupestris | ||||
Name authority | A. Gray: Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 5(6): 82. (1853) | (A. Gray) Shinners: SouthW. Naturalist 4: 204. (1959) | ||||
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