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Emory's Rock daisy

Glass Mountain 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. Plants 3–10 cm (densely leafy); pilose.
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.

petioles 2–4 mm;

blades subovate to ovate-deltate, 5–7(–10) × 5–8(–12) mm, margins obtuse-serrate to incised-lobed.

Peduncles

1–70 mm.

1–3(–8) mm.

Involucres

campanulate to hemispheric.

narrowly campanulate.

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.

11–16;

corollas white, tubes 1 mm, throats tubular, 2.5 mm, lobes 1 mm.

Phyllaries

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

9–12, linear-lanceolate, 4–5 × 0.8–1.2 mm.

Heads

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

usually in corymbiform arrays, rarely borne singly, 6–7 × 3–4 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.

1.9–2 mm;

pappi of 2–6 bristles 0.5–2 mm plus vestigial nubs between bristles, or of 10–20 bristles 0.1–2 mm.

2n

= 65–72 or 100–116.

= 34.

Perityle emoryi

Perityle vitreomontana

Phenology Flowering year round (depending on latitude). Flowering spring–fall.
Habitat Coastal bluffs, desert plains, slopes, washes Limestone bluffs
Elevation 10–1500 m (0–4900 ft) 1500–2200 m (4900–7200 ft)
Distribution
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AZ; CA; NV; UT; Mexico; South America (Chile, Peru)
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TX
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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.)

Of conservation concern.

Perityle vitreomontana is known only from in the Glass Mountains of Brewster County. Although P. vitreomontana resembles P. bisetosa, close study of the pappus reveals that it belongs in sect. Pappothrix. Leaf and flower morphology suggest the relationship of P. vitreomontana to P. rupestris var. albiflora.

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

Source FNA vol. 21, p. 321. 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. 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
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. rupestris, P. saxicola, P. specuicola, P. stansburyi, P. staurophylla, P. tenella, P. vaseyi, P. villosa, P. warnockii
Name authority Torrey: in W. H. Emory, Not. Milit. Reconn., 142. (1848) Warnock: SouthW. Naturalist 12: 475, fig. 1. (1967)
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