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Pseudobahia heermannii

brittlestem, foothill sunburst, Heermann's golden sunburst
Habit Plants to 30 cm.
Leaves

10–30 mm, mostly 1-pinnately lobed (lobes 0.5–1.5 mm wide), distal sometimes entire.
Peduncles

20–50 mm.
Ray florets

± 8.
Disc florets

8–25+;

tubes cylindric, abruptly dilated (throats broadly funnelform), lobes glabrous.
Phyllaries

± 8, connate to 1/2 their lengths, elliptic to lanceolate (each pair with semicircular crest proximal to sinus, hard at maturity, ± enclosing cypselae).
Cypselae

2–2.5 mm.
2n

= 6 + 0–2I, 8 + 0–1I or 0–1B, 10 + 0–1I.

Pseudobahia heermannii
Phenology Flowering Mar–Jun.
Habitat Grasslands or sandy or rocky openings in chaparral, foothill woodlands, yellow pine forests
Elevation 100–1600 m (300–5200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
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Source FNA vol. 21, p. 352.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Baeriinae > Pseudobahia
Sibling taxa
P. bahiifolia, P. peirsonii
Synonyms Monolopia heermannii
Name authority (Durand) Rydberg: in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl. 34: 83. (1915)
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