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desert fir, desert pine, pygmy cedar, Schott's pygmycedar

Leaves

5–20(–50) × 1–2 mm.

Peduncles

8–25 mm, glabrous or stipitate-glandular.

Disc corollas

6.5–8.5 mm.

Cypselae

3.2–4 mm;

pappus elements 2–6 mm.

2n

= 40.

Peucephyllum schottii

Phenology Flowering spring (following rains).
Habitat Desert scrubs, soils from granitics, limestones, sandstones, volcanics
Elevation -50–1400 m (-200–4600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; NV; UT; Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora)
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Source FNA vol. 21, p. 378.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Chaenactidinae > Peucephyllum
Name authority A. Gray: in W. H. Emory, Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound. 2(1): 74. (1859)
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