Rudbeckia alpicola
showy black-eyed susan, showy coneflower, Washington, Washington showy black-eyed susan, Wenatchee coneflower, Wenatchee Mountain, Wenatchee Mountain showy black-eyed susan, Wenatchee Mountains coneflower
green, ovate to elliptic or deltate, pinnate to pinnatifid or lyrate-pinnatifid, herbaceous, faces moderately to densely hairy (hairs 1-seriate);
basal petiolate, 25–70 × 8–45 cm, lobes 3–9, bases rounded to acute, apices acute;
cauline petiolate or sessile, 12–50 × 5–40 cm, bases attenuate to cuneate, ultimate margins dentate to lobed, apices acute.
columnar;
paleae 5–7 mm, apices obtuse to acute, often apiculate, abaxial tips hairy.
0.
300–500;
corollas brown-purple, 4.2–5.8 mm;
style branches ca. 2 mm, apices acute.
to 6 cm (foliaceous, faces scabrous).
borne singly or (2–10) in ± corymbiform arrays.
3.5–5 mm;
pappi of 4 scales, to 1 mm.
30–80 × 18–30 mm.
Rudbeckia alpicola
Of conservation concern.
Rudbeckia alpicola is known only from Chelan and Kittitas counties.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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