Townsendia florifer
Townsendia aprica
showy Townsend-daisy, showy townsendia
last chance Townsend daisy
± erect;
internodes 0.1–1 mm, ± strigose.
basal and cauline, blades ± spatulate, 5–8(–16+) × 1.5–2.5+ mm, little, if at all, fleshy, faces ± strigose.
± campanulate, 4–8+ mm diam.
13–21;
corollas yellow adaxially, laminae 4–6+ mm, glandular-puberulent abaxially.
25–60+;
corollas 4–5+ mm.
24–40+ in 4+ series, the longer ± lanceolate, 4–7 mm (l/w = 2.5–5), sometimes glabrate, apices acute to attenuate, abaxial faces usually sparsely strigillose or glandular-puberulent.
± sessile.
2–2.5 mm, faces hairy, hair tips glochidiform;
pappi persistent;
on ray cypselae 10–12 lanceolate to subulate scales 0.5–1+ mm;
on disc cypselae 20+ subulate to setiform scales 4–5+ mm.
= 18.
Townsendia florifer
Townsendia aprica
Of conservation concern.
Townsendia aprica is questionably distinct from T. jonesii. Townsendia aprica is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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