Stephanomeria cichoriacea
chicoryleaf wire-lettuce, Fort Tejon milk aster, silver rock-lettuce
single, simple or virgately branched, woolly-pubescent when young, glabrescent.
green at flowering (spreading at bases);
blades oblanceolate to spatulate, 10–20 cm, margins entire or irregularly toothed, teeth remote, faces woolly-pubescent, glabrescent;
cauline much reduced distally, margins entire or irregularly toothed.
± 0.
12–15 mm (phyllaries 20–25 in 2–3 series, appressed, 2–15 mm, unequal, puberulent; receptacles pitted, each socket 5-sided, surrounded by minute, raised, scaly fringe).
10–13.
0 (or bractlets intergrading with phyllaries).
borne singly along branches.
tan or grayish tan, 5–6 mm, faces smooth, grooved (grooves sometimes absent or only visible as fine lines or striations);
pappi of 20–25, tan to pale brown bristles (persistent), wholly plumose.
= 16.
Stephanomeria cichoriacea
Stephanomeria cichoriacea grows primarily in the coastal mountains from southern Monterey County to the San Bernardino Mountains, Santa Ana Mountains, and the Channel Islands.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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