Perityle emoryi |
Perityle vitreomontana |
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Emory's Rock daisy |
Glass Mountain Rock daisy |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
AZ; CA; NV; UT; Mexico; South America (Chile, Peru)
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TX |
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 |
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Name authority | Torrey: in W. H. Emory, Not. Milit. Reconn., 142. (1848) | Warnock: SouthW. Naturalist 12: 475, fig. 1. (1967) |
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