Flora of North America species comparison

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Rafinesquia californica

California chicory, California plumeseed, desert plume-seed
Habit Plants 20–150 cm.
Involucres

12–20 mm.
Cypselae

light tan or sordid, 9–14 mm, including very slender beaks 5–7 mm;

pappi of 6–15, wholly plumose bristles, barbs straight, separate.
Ligules

surpassing phyllaries by 5–7 mm.
2n

= 16.

Rafinesquia californica
Phenology Flowering Apr–Jun.
Habitat Open places in coastal sage scrub, chaparral, oak woodlands in northern and coastal California and southwestern Oregon (often found after fires), Upper Sonoran Zone
Elevation 100–1500 m (300–4900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; NV; OR; Mexico (Baja California)
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Source FNA vol. 19, p. 349.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Cichorieae > Rafinesquia
Sibling taxa
R. neomexicana
Name authority Nuttall: Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s. 7: 429. (1841)
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