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Arizona rockdaisy, crow-foot rock daisy

leafy rock daisy

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).

Peduncles

7–15 mm.

2–13(–20) mm.

Involucres

campanulate.

subcylindric, subfunnelform, or narrowly campanulate.

Ray florets

8–12;

corollas white, laminae broadly oblong or oblong-elliptic to subspatulate, 3–7 × 2–3 mm.

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.

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.

Heads

(2–5) in corymbiform arrays, 5–6.5 × 5–6 mm.

borne singly or in corymbiform arrays, 6–8 × 3–5 mm.

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.

2n

= 34.

Perityle coronopifolia

Perityle rupestris

Phenology Flowering spring–fall.
Habitat Rock and cliff faces
Elevation 1000–2600 m (3300–8500 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NM; Mexico (Chihuahua)
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from FNA
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.)

Key
1. Corollas white
var. albiflora
1. Corollas yellow
var. rupestris
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
Sibling taxa
P. aglossa, P. ajoensis, P. ambrosiifolia, P. angustifolia, P. bisetosa, P. cernua, P. ciliata, P. cinerea, P. cochisensis, P. congesta, P. dissecta, P. emoryi, P. fosteri, P. gilensis, P. gracilis, P. huecoensis, P. intricata, P. inyoensis, P. lemmonii, P. lindheimeri, P. megalocephala, P. microglossa, P. parryi, P. quinqueflora, P. rupestris, P. saxicola, P. specuicola, P. stansburyi, P. staurophylla, P. tenella, P. vaseyi, P. villosa, P. vitreomontana, P. warnockii
P. aglossa, P. ajoensis, P. ambrosiifolia, P. angustifolia, P. bisetosa, P. cernua, P. ciliata, P. cinerea, P. cochisensis, P. congesta, P. coronopifolia, P. dissecta, P. emoryi, P. fosteri, P. gilensis, P. gracilis, P. huecoensis, P. intricata, P. inyoensis, P. lemmonii, P. lindheimeri, P. megalocephala, P. microglossa, P. parryi, P. quinqueflora, P. saxicola, P. specuicola, P. stansburyi, P. staurophylla, P. tenella, P. vaseyi, P. villosa, P. vitreomontana, P. warnockii
Subordinate taxa
P. rupestris var. albiflora, P. rupestris var. rupestris
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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