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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Perennial
General Desc:
Subshrub; base of plant woody, tap-rooted; 1 to 5, erect stems, green throughout or reddish above or throughout; usually not branched towards stem tips; leaves mostly basal, hairy.
Identification notes: Basal leaf rosette similar to Tragopogon dubius except missing milky sap; stems solitary or few; leaves smooth margined or 3-parted, not glandular; flower head bracts lance-like, may be hairy; flower heads mostly solitary on mostly naked stems.
Height:
8 to 27 inches tall
Habitat Description: Dry slopes, pine forests, juniper-pine woodlands, roadsides.
Plant Communities:
Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest, Disturbed Areas
Elevation: 5500 - 7500 feet
Color:
Yellow
Shape:
Daisy or dandelion-like in round clusters
Tubular:
N
Flowering Period:
Apr - Oct
Description:
Flower heads single, on stem ends, 1 to 8; bracts inverted cone-shaped to hemispheric, yellowish, whitish, or reddish, sparsely to densely hairy in 2 unequal series; disc flowers 100 to 250 or more, yellow, densely glandular; ray flowers 13 to 15, yellow.
Leaf Color:
Green
Leaf Type:
Simple
Leaf Shape:
Narrow
Leaf Margin:
Smooth
Leaf Attachment:
Basal and alternate
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
Leaves and stems
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
Stems hairy; leaves basal and on stems, simple, rarely lobed, narrowly linear, to 4 inches long, less than 1/8 inch wide, thick, fleshy, smooth to somewhat hairy, sparsely glandular or glands absent, very hairy at the base.
Fruit Type: Achene
Fruit Notes: Small one-seeded dry fruits do not split open at maturity; broader at top than base (upside down pyramid), narrow, hairy; pappus of 9 to 11 lance-like scales that are pointed at the base.
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