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 Leaves Kirsten Phillips @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial) |  Plant Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) | | | | |
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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Biennial or perennial
General Desc:
Stems single or clustered at base from branched or unbranched caudex (old part of stem); stems and leaves hairy; basal leaves often laciniate (narrow, irregular lobes); flower heads yellow, showy; rarely flowering first year.
Identification notes: Stems often hairy, greenish, sometimes long, soft, shaggy hairs in axils; basal leaves wither with age, narrow to spatula-like, smooth or lobed margins; stem leaves similar, reduced in size; ray and disc flowers yellow; ray flowers bent downward in fruit.
Height:
6 to 16 inches
Habitat Description: Dry mesas and slopes, often in grasslands, pinyon-juniper, open pine forests and higher elevation woodlands.
Plant Communities:
Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest
Elevation: 4500 - 7500 feet
Color:
Yellow
Shape:
Regular in elongated clusters
Tubular:
N
Flowering Period:
May - Nov
Description:
Arranged in groups of 3 to 6 in loose clusters; flower head cylindric to bell-shaped, 1/4 inch, ray petals yellow, wider than long, bent backward in fruit, 3-lobed; disc florets 7 to 9 per flower head; bracts loosely woolly in 1 to 2 sub-equal layers.
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:
Basal leaves narrow on long stalk, to 4 inches long, smooth or occasionally lobed margins, often laciniate (narrow, irregular lobes), loosely hairy, withering with age; stem leaves similar but reduced in size, alternate, stalkless, narrow, less hairy.
Fruit Type: Achene
Fruit Notes: Achenes narrow, usually smooth, sometimes gland-dotted; topped with a pappus of unequal narrow scales, these half as long as disc flowers.
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