Perityle megalocephala |
Perityle vitreomontana |
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bighead rockdaisy, large head rock daisy, limestone rockdaisy, Nevada Rock daisy |
Glass Mountain Rock daisy |
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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. |
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Peduncles | 10–45(–80) mm. |
1–3(–8) mm. |
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Involucres | campanulate. |
narrowly campanulate. |
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Ray florets | 0. |
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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. |
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Phyllaries | 14–20, lanceolate to suboblanceolate, 5–6 × 1.3–1.9 mm. |
9–12, linear-lanceolate, 4–5 × 0.8–1.2 mm. |
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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. |
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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. |
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2n | = 34. |
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Perityle megalocephala |
Perityle vitreomontana |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–fall. | |||||
Habitat | Limestone bluffs | |||||
Elevation | 1500–2200 m (4900–7200 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
CA; NV
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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.) |
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Key |
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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 | ||||
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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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