Pyrrocoma lanceolata
intermountain pyrrocoma, lance-leaf goldenweed
1–10, decumbent to ascending or erect, red-tinged, sometimes branched, sparsely leafy, ± tomentulose or glabrous, sometimes stipitate-glandular.
basal blades lanceolate or rarely oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 50–300 × 8–30 mm, margins sharply dentate, eciliate, apices acute, spinulose;
cauline sessile, lanceolate, bases clasping;
faces ± tomentulose to glabrate or glabrous, sometimes stipitate-glandular.
0–6 cm.
hemispheric, 7–10 × 10–18 mm.
18–45;
corollas 6–11 mm.
20–100;
corollas 5–7 mm.
in 3–4 series, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, 3–11 mm, unequal, bases white-chartaceous, margins entire, eciliate, apices conspicuously green, faces glabrous or tomentulose, rarely stipitate-glandular.
(1–)4–20(–50) in corymbiform or paniculiform arrays.
oblong, 3.5–4.5 mm, 4-angled, faces striate, sericeous;
pappi tawny, 5–7 mm.
Pyrrocoma lanceolata
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).
Pyrrocoma lanceolata has the widest range of any species and exhibits much variability in habit and head size. A number of infraspecific taxa have been recognized in the past; only two were retained by R. A. Mayes (1976).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Stems glabrous or sparsely tomentulose, eglandular | var. lanceolata |
1. Stems tomentulose, densely stipitate-glandular, especially peduncles | var. subviscosa |
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