Townsendia glabella
Gray's Townsend daisy
± erect;
internodes 0.1–1 mm, strigose.
basal and cauline, blades spatulate to oblanceolate, 20–60+ × 2–5(–11+) mm, little, if at all, fleshy (margins strigoso-ciliate), usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely strigillose.
hemispheric or broader, 8–12(–24) mm diam.
12–34+;
corollas usually white, sometimes pink or blue adaxially, laminae 5–10(–14+) mm, glabrous abaxially.
50–80+;
corollas 3.5–5.5 mm.
20–28+ in 3–4+ series, the longer ± lanceolate, 5–9 mm (l/w = 3–5), apices acute, abaxial faces glabrous or sparsely strigillose.
usually on scapiform peduncles 10–20(–70) mm, rarely sessile.
2–4 mm, faces sparsely hairy (mostly at bases), hair tips glochidiform;
pappi persistent;
on ray cypselae ± 20 lanceolate to subulate scales 0.5–1.8 mm;
on disc cypselae 15–35 subulate to setiform scales (4–)5–7 mm.
= 18.
Townsendia glabella
Of conservation concern.
Distinctions between Townsendia glabella and T. rothrockii are subtle. Types of the two names are probably better considered to be conspecific.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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