Flora of North America species comparison

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Stephanomeria parryi

Parry Rock pink, Parry's wirelettuce
Habit Perennials, 10–30 cm (rhizomes stout).
Stems

1–3, branches ascending, glabrous.
Leaves

green (at least cauline) at flowering;

blades linear to lanceolate, shallowly runcinate, 2–6 cm (relatively thick and firm), margins pinnately lobed (thickened, usually minutely, sharply spinose, faces glabrous).
Peduncles

2–10 mm (bracteate).
Involucres

10–14 mm.
Florets

(8–)10–13.
Calyculi

of (6–8) appressed bractlets (unequal, lengths to 1/2 phyllaries).
Heads

borne singly along branches.
Cypselae

tan, 4.5–6 mm, (ribs well developed) faces slightly bumpy, grooved;

pappi of 10–15, tan bristles (connate in groups of 2–4, bases persistent), plumose on distal 80%.
2n

= 32.

Stephanomeria parryi
Phenology Flowering May–Jun.
Habitat Open, sandy and gravelly slopes in Upper Sonoran Zone, many plant communities, desert mountains
Elevation 700–2000 m (2300–6600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; NV; UT
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Source FNA vol. 19, p. 356.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Cichorieae > Stephanomeria
Sibling taxa
S. cichoriacea, S. diegensis, S. elata, S. exigua, S. fluminea, S. lactucina, S. malheurensis, S. paniculata, S. pauciflora, S. runcinata, S. tenuifolia, S. thurberi, S. virgata
Name authority A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 19: 61. (1883)
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