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bighead rockdaisy, large head rock daisy, limestone rockdaisy, Nevada Rock daisy

five-flower rock daisy

Habit Perennials or subshrubs, 15–55 cm (often dense, profusely branched clumps, sparsely leafy); densely hirtellous. Plants 7–30 cm (often densely leafy); usually glabrate or puberulent, sometimes hirtellous.
Leaves

petioles 1–6 mm;

blades usually elliptic, lanceolate, lance-ovate, ovate, or suborbiculate, sometimes linear, 4–8(–15) × 1–10(–12) mm, margins entire, irregularly and sparsely serrate, or serrate-lobed.

petioles 5–8(–12) mm;

blades reniform to cordate, 8–20(–33) × 8–20(–33) mm, margins subentire, dentate-toothed, or shallow-lobed.

Peduncles

10–45(–80) mm.

2–10(–15) mm.

Involucres

campanulate.

cylindric to narrowly campanulate.

Ray florets

0.

Disc florets

45–60;

corollas yellow, tubes 1–1.6 mm, throats tubular to subfunnelform, 1.6–2.2 mm, lobes 0.4–0.7 mm.

5–6(–8);

corollas yellow, tubes 1–1.3 mm, throats tubular, 2–2.3(–2.8) mm, lobes 0.5–1 mm.

Phyllaries

14–20, lanceolate to suboblanceolate, 5–6 × 1.3–1.9 mm.

5–6, linear-lanceolate, 5–6(–9) × (1–)1.3–1.7 mm.

Heads

borne singly or (2–3) in loose, corymbiform arrays, 6–9(–10) × 5–6(–8) mm.

in corymbiform arrays, 7–8(–9) × 2–3 mm.

Cypselae

narrowly oblanceolate to suboblanceolate, 2.5–3 mm, margins thin-calloused, short-hairy;

pappi 0, or of single bristles.

1.9–2(–2.9) mm;

pappi of 25–30 bristles 0.6–2.5(–3.5) mm.

2n

= 34.

Perityle megalocephala

Perityle quinqueflora

Phenology Flowering spring–fall.
Habitat Crevices of limestone (rarely igneous) rock in high canyons, bluffs, and caprock
Elevation 1200–2500 m (3900–8200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; NV
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from FNA
NM; TX
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Discussion

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).

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

Perityle quinqueflora grows in mountains of west-central trans-Pecos Texas and adjacent New Mexico. Possibly P. quinqueflora and the similar P. rupestris var. rupestris have both evolved from a widespread common ancestor resembling P. cernua.

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

Key
1. Leaf blades ovate, lanceolate-ovate or elliptic to suborbiculate
var. megalocephala
1. Leaf blades linear to lanceolate
var. oligophylla
Source FNA vol. 21, p. 326. FNA vol. 21, p. 318.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Peritylinae > Perityle > sect. Laphamia 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. emoryi, P. fosteri, P. gilensis, P. gracilis, P. huecoensis, P. intricata, P. inyoensis, P. lemmonii, P. lindheimeri, 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. rupestris, P. saxicola, P. specuicola, P. stansburyi, P. staurophylla, P. tenella, P. vaseyi, P. villosa, P. vitreomontana, P. warnockii
Subordinate taxa
P. megalocephala var. megalocephala, P. megalocephala var. oligophylla
Synonyms Laphamia megalocephala Laphamia quinqueflora, Pappothrix quinqueflora
Name authority (S. Watson) J. F. Macbride: Contr. Gray Herb. 56: 39. (1918) (Steyermark) Shinners: SouthW. Naturalist 4: 205. (1959)
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