Tetradymia spinosa |
Tetradymia glabrata |
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catclaw horsebrush, cotton-thorn horsebrush, shortspine horsebrush, spiny horsebrush |
little-leaf horsebrush |
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Habit | Shrubs, 10–100 cm. | Shrubs, 20–120 cm. |
Stems | 1–5+, erect or spreading, spiny, evenly pannose. |
1–3+, erect, unarmed, pannose but for glabrescent streaks. |
Leaves | primaries forming recurved spines, 5–25 mm; secondaries linear-filiform to spatulate, 3–25 (× 1–2) mm, glabrous or glabrescent. |
primaries linear-subulate, ascending to appressed, 5–20 (× 1+) mm, sparsely floccose, sometimes glabrate; secondaries linear-filiform to clavate, 3–15 mm, glabrous. |
Peduncles | 5–30 mm. |
3–15 mm. |
Involucres | hemispheric, 8–12 mm. |
turbinate, 7–10 mm. |
Florets | 5–8; corollas pale to bright yellow, 6–10 mm. |
4; corollas cream to yellow, 9–10 mm. |
Phyllaries | 4–6, oblong to ovate. |
4, lanceolate to obovate. |
Heads | 1–2 (in axils of spines). |
3–7. |
Cypselae | 6–8 mm, copiously pilose (hairs 9–12 mm); pappi of ca. 25, subulate scales 6–9 mm. |
2.5–3.5 mm, hirsute; pappi of 100–130 bristles 6–8 mm. |
2n | = 60. |
= 60, 62, 120, 180. |
Tetradymia spinosa |
Tetradymia glabrata |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | Flowering spring–early summer. |
Habitat | Usually sandy soils of alkali sinks, shadscale scrub, pinyon-juniper woodlands | Sagebrush scrub, pinyon-juniper woodlands, Joshua tree woodlands |
Elevation | 800–2400 m (2600–7900 ft) | 800–2400 m (2600–7900 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; CO; ID; MT; NM; NV; OR; UT; WY
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CA; ID; NV; OR; UT
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Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 632. | FNA vol. 20, p. 631. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Tetradymia | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Tetradymia |
Sibling taxa | ||
Name authority | Hooker & Arnott: Bot. Beechey Voy., 360. (1839) | Torrey & A. Gray: in War Department [U.S.], Pacif. Railr. Rep. 2(1): 122, plate 5. (1857) |
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