Townsendia montana |
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mountain townsendia, Wyoming Townsend daisy |
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Habit | Perennials, mostly 1–2+ cm (usually ± pulvinate). |
Stems | ± erect; internodes 0.1–1(–2) mm, strigose. |
Leaves | basal and cauline, blades ± spatulate to oblanceolate, 10–35+ × 2–5+ mm, not fleshy, faces usually ± strigose, sometimes glabrous. |
Involucres | hemispheric to campanulate, 8–15 mm diam. |
Ray florets | 13–21+; corollas usually white, sometimes pink or blue, adaxially, laminae 6–12 mm, abaxially usually glandular-puberulent, sometimes glabrous. |
Disc florets | 30–60+; corollas 3.5–5.5 mm. |
Phyllaries | 18–32 in 3–4+ series, the longer ± oblanceolate, 6–9 mm (l/w = 3–5), glabrate, or sparsely strigillose, apices obtuse to acute, abaxial faces glabrous. |
Heads | usually on scapiform peduncles 5–60+ mm, sometimes sessile. |
Cypselae | 4.5 mm, faces glabrous or hairy at bases, hair tips glochidiform; pappi persistent; on ray cypselae 24–30+ subulate to setiform scales 5–6 mm; on disc cypselae 24–30+ subulate to setiform scales 5.5–6.6 mm. |
2n | = 18, 36. |
Townsendia montana |
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Phenology | Flowering (May–)Jul–Aug. |
Habitat | Meadows, granite and limestone ridges |
Elevation | 2000–3100 m (6600–10200 ft) |
Distribution |
CO; ID; MT; OR; UT; WY
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Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 201. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Townsendia |
Sibling taxa | |
Synonyms | T. alpigena, T. alpigena var. caelilinensis, T. montana var. caelilinensis |
Name authority | M. E. Jones: Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 2, 5: 697. (1895) |
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