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sword Townsend daisy

Habit Perennials, 1–2 cm (usually ± pulvinate).
Stems

± erect;

internodes 0.1–1 mm, ± villous.

Leaves

basal and cauline, ± spatulate, 7–10(–20) × 1.5–2(–4) mm little, it at all, fleshy, faces ± villous or sericeous.

Involucres

± urceolate, 6–12(–16) mm diam.

Ray florets

12–30+;

corollas white to pinkish adaxially, laminae 3–12 mm, abaxially usually glandular-puberulent, sometimes glabrous.

Disc florets

16–30+;

corollas 4–5+ mm.

Phyllaries

16–24+ in 3–4 series, the longer lance-ovate to lanceolate, 6–8(–9) mm (l/w = 4–7), apices usually acute, sometimes attenuate, abaxial faces ± villous to strigillose.

Heads

± sessile.

Cypselae

2.5–4 mm, faces hairy, hair tips glochidiform or forked;

pappi readily falling, of 14–30 subulate to setiform scales 4.5–6+ mm (± connate basally).

Townsendia spathulata

Phenology Flowering May–Jun.
Habitat Open ridges
Elevation 1600–2300 m (5200–7500 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
MT; WY
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Source FNA vol. 20, p. 196.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Astereae > Townsendia
Sibling taxa
T. annua, T. aprica, T. condensata, T. eximia, T. exscapa, T. fendleri, T. florifera, T. formosa, T. glabella, T. grandiflora, T. gypsophila, T. hookeri, T. incana, T. jonesii, T. leptotes, T. mensana, T. microcephala, T. minima, T. montana, T. parryi, T. rothrockii, T. scapigera, T. smithii, T. strigosa, T. texensis
Name authority Nuttall: Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s. 7: 305. (1840)
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