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

Glass Mountain Rock daisy

Habit Perennials or subshrubs, 15–55 cm (often dense, profusely branched clumps, sparsely leafy); densely hirtellous. Plants 3–10 cm (densely leafy); pilose.
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 2–4 mm;

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

Peduncles

10–45(–80) mm.

1–3(–8) mm.

Involucres

campanulate.

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.

11–16;

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

Phyllaries

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

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

Heads

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

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

Cypselae

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

pappi 0, or of single bristles.

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

= 34.

Perityle megalocephala

Perityle vitreomontana

Phenology Flowering spring–fall.
Habitat Limestone bluffs
Elevation 1500–2200 m (4900–7200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; NV
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from FNA
TX
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Discussion

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).

(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.)

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. 319.
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. quinqueflora, P. rupestris, P. saxicola, P. specuicola, P. stansburyi, P. staurophylla, P. tenella, P. vaseyi, P. villosa, P. warnockii
Subordinate taxa
P. megalocephala var. megalocephala, P. megalocephala var. oligophylla
Synonyms Laphamia megalocephala
Name authority (S. Watson) J. F. Macbride: Contr. Gray Herb. 56: 39. (1918) Warnock: SouthW. Naturalist 12: 475, fig. 1. (1967)
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