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Woodhouse's bahia, Woodhouse's false bahia

Habit Plants ± erect, 3–15(–18+) cm.
Leaf

lobes narrowly lanceolate to linear, 8–20+ × 1–2(–5) mm, faces sparsely scabrellous and gland-dotted.

Involucres

± turbinate or obconic to hemispheric, 5–6+ × 4–6+ mm.

Ray florets

3–8;

corollas pale yellow (sometimes ochroleucous), laminae 2–5 mm.

Disc florets

20–35+;

corollas 3–3.5 mm.

Cypselae

3–4 mm, seldom gland-dotted, usually hirsutulous (at least at bases);

pappus scales usually lanceolate to linear-subulate, 0.8–1.2(–2) mm.

2n

= 24.

Picradeniopsis woodhousei

Phenology Flowering May–Sep.
Habitat Roadsides, etc., on sandy, silty, or loamy soils of grasslands, plains, or prairies
Elevation 1000–1700 m (3300–5600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CO; KS; NM; OK; TX
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Source FNA vol. 21, p. 385.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Chaenactidinae > Picradeniopsis
Sibling taxa
P. oppositifolia
Synonyms Achyropappus woodhousei, Bahia woodhousei
Name authority (A. Gray) Rydberg: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 37: 333. (1910)
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