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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Biennial or perennial Similar Species: Dietiera canescens, Dieteria bigelovii
General Desc:
1 to several stems from base, generally branched above and bushy. Several blue or purple daisy-like flowers with yellow centers on branching stems.
Identification notes: Biennial or short-lived perennial, leaves alternate, stalkless, toothed, teeth often tipped with spines. Herbage often hairy-glandular. Ray flowers blue or purple; phyllaries in series of 5 to 12, tips acute to long-acuminate, spreading to reflexed.
Height:
2 feet or more
Habitat Description: Found in alluvial soils and on slopes in creosote shrubland to pine-oak and juniper woodlands.
Plant Communities:
Desert Scrub, Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland
Elevation: 1000 - 8000 feet
Color:
Blue to purple
Shape:
Daisy or dandelion-like in elongated clusters
Tubular:
N
Flowering Period:
Jun - Nov
Description:
Blue or purple rays, yellow disc flowers, to 1 inch wide. Bracts (phyllaries) in 5 to 12 series, well graduated in length with the outer phyllaries much shorter than the inner.
Leaf Color:
Grayish-green
Leaf Type:
Simple
Leaf Shape:
Narrow
Leaf Margin:
Toothed
Leaf Attachment:
Alternate
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
Leaves and stems
Spines:
Y
Leaf Description:
Sessile and sandpapery, 1 to 3 inches long, margins usually toothed, teeth often tipped with tiny hair-like spines.
Fruit Color: Brown
Fruit Type: Achene
Fruit Notes: Achenes are lined, smooth to velvety.
Seed Notes: Seeds topped with bristles.
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