Thymophylla pentachaeta |
Thymophylla micropoides |
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five-needle pricklyleaf |
woolly pricklyleaf |
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Habit | Perennials or subshrubs, ± grayish to green, to 15(–25) cm, usually puberulent to canescent, sometimes glabrescent or glabrous. | Perennials, ashy white, to 15+ cm, arachnose to floccose. | ||||||||||||
Stems | erect or spreading. |
spreading, often prostrate. |
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Leaves | mostly opposite; blades mostly pinnately lobed, 6–28+ mm overall, lobes 3–11 linear to filiform (usually stiff, setiform). |
mostly alternate; blades not lobed, spatulate, 10–25 × 3–6 mm, margins entire or toothed. |
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Peduncles | 20–100 mm, puberulent or glabrous. |
0–5+ mm, tomentose. |
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Involucres | obconic to campanulate or hemispheric, 4–6 mm. |
obconic, 6–7 mm. |
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Ray florets | (8–)12–21; corollas yellow to orange-yellow, laminae 2–6(–8) × 1–3 mm. |
10–15; corollas bright yellow, becoming greenish, laminae 5 × 3 mm. |
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Disc florets | 16–40 or 50–80; corollas yellow, 2–4 mm (tending to zygomorphy in peripheral florets in some plants). |
ca. 60; corollas yellow, 3 mm. |
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Phyllaries | 12–21, margins of outer distinct 1/5 to nearly all their lengths, abaxial faces puberulent or glabrous. |
12–14, margins of outer distinct less than 1/5 their lengths, abaxial faces tomentose. |
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Calyculi | 0, or of 1–5 deltate bractlets, lengths less than 1/2 phyllaries. |
of 3–5 linear bractlets, lengths 1/2+ phyllaries. |
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Cypselae | 2–3 mm; pappi of 10 erose and/or aristate scales mostly 1–3 mm. |
2.3–3 mm; pappi of 5 erose scales to 1 mm alternating with 5 lanceolate, 1-aristate scales to 3 mm. |
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2n | = 16. |
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Thymophylla pentachaeta |
Thymophylla micropoides |
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Phenology | Flowering year round, following rains. | |||||||||||||
Habitat | Calcareous outcrops and derived soils | |||||||||||||
Elevation | 50–200+ m (200–700+ ft) | |||||||||||||
Distribution |
AZ; CA; NM; NV; TX; UT; Mexico [Introduced(?) in South America (Argentina)]
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TX; Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas) |
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Discussion | Varieties 4 (4 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 21, p. 241. | FNA vol. 21, p. 241. | ||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Pectidinae > Thymophylla | Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Pectidinae > Thymophylla | ||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Hymenatherum pentachaetum, Dyssodia pentachaeta | Gnaphalopsis micropoides, Dyssodia micropoides | ||||||||||||
Name authority | (de Candolle) Small: Fl. S.E. U.S., 1295, 1341. (1903) | (de Candolle) Strother: Sida 11: 377. (1986) | ||||||||||||
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