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Habit Plants rounded, densely branched from bases.
Stems

glandular.

Leaf

blades 3–10+ mm, sharply toothed, often subhastate.

Petioles

filiform, 2–6 cm, lengths 3–10 times blades.

Corollas

4–5 mm.

Cypselae

3–4 mm;

pappi: scales 1–2+ mm, bristles 2–5 mm.

2n

= 18.

Pleurocoronis pluriseta

Phenology Flowering (Oct–)Mar–May(–Jun).
Habitat Rocky slopes and washes, limestone outcrops, crevices of canyon walls, creosote bush scrub, acacia-mesquite
Elevation 0–200 m (0–700 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; NV; UT; Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora)
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Source FNA vol. 21, p. 511.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Eupatorieae > Pleurocoronis
Synonyms Hofmeisteria pluriseta
Name authority (A. Gray) R. M. King & H. Robinson: Phytologia 12: 469. (1966)
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