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Emory's Rock daisy

Habit Annuals (sometimes persisting), 2–60 cm (delicate or robust, stems relatively few to many, erect or spreading); puberulent to hirsute, glandular-pubescent.
Leaves

petioles 3–45 mm;

blades ovate, cordate, suborbiculate, or triangular, 17–60 × 10–50 mm, margins deeply toothed, lobed, cleft, or divided, lobes indented to irregularly dissected.

Peduncles

1–70 mm.

Involucres

campanulate to hemispheric.

Ray florets

usually 8–14, rarely rudimentary or 0;

corollas white, laminae oblong, 1–4(–6) × 1–3 mm.

Disc florets

40–100+;

corollas yellow, tubes 0.7–1.3 mm, throats tubular to tubular-funnelform, 0.8–1.3 mm, lobes 0.1–0.2 mm.

Phyllaries

10–20, lanceolate or oblanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 4–6 × 1–2 mm.

Heads

borne singly or in corymbiform arrays, 4–10 × 4–10 mm.

Cypselae

suboblong, oblanceolate, or subcuneate, (1.5–)2–3 mm, margins thin (not calloused), long- or short-ciliate;

pappi 0 or of 1 antrorsely to retrorsely barbellate bristles 1–3 mm plus crowns of hyaline, laciniate scales.

2n

= 65–72 or 100–116.

Perityle emoryi

Phenology Flowering year round (depending on latitude).
Habitat Coastal bluffs, desert plains, slopes, washes
Elevation 10–1500 m (0–4900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; NV; UT; Mexico; South America (Chile, Peru)
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Discussion

Perityle emoryi is a widespread polyploid of diverse habitats and is often weedy. It is variable; none of the variation appears to have population significance and does not require taxonomic recognition. The range of P. emoryi appears to be gradually expanding.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 21, p. 321.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Peritylinae > Perityle > sect. Perityle
Sibling taxa
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. 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
Name authority Torrey: in W. H. Emory, Not. Milit. Reconn., 142. (1848)
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