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 Leaves Patrick Alexander @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) |  Plant Patrick Alexander @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) | | | | |
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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Annual
General Desc:
Flowers are less than 1/16 inch high and lack rays; not particularly showy; somewhat hairy; wedge-shaped leaf-like structures around base of flower; yellow disc flowers; when in fruit, dark colored achenes topped with lighter colored scales.
Identification notes: Low-growing, delicate annual; leaves small, some simple and thread-like, others pinnately divided into narrow to thread-like lobes; yellow disc flowers <1/2 inch high, no ray flowers; phyllaries (bracts) somewhat hairy, wedge-shaped; achenes dark.
Height:
3 to 5 inches, rarely 25?
Habitat Description: Found on roadsides, on sandy slopes, and along washes, often in grasslands.
Plant Communities:
Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest, Disturbed Areas
Elevation: 5000 - 7000 feet
Color:
Yellowish, green, purple
Shape:
Daisy or dandelion-like in elongated clusters
Tubular:
N
Flowering Period:
Aug - Oct
Description:
Flower heads yellowish, in sparsely flowered clusters; stalks 1/4 to 1 inch long; 7 to 10 hairy bracts in 2 equal series, oval, green to purple; hairy and gland-dotted; disc flowers 15 to 30 per flower head; flowers yellowish; petals 1/16 inch long.
Leaf Color:
Green
Leaf Type:
Simple
Leaf Shape:
Narrow
Leaf Margin:
Lobed
Leaf Attachment:
Alternate and opposite
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
Leaves and stems
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
Stems erect or along ground; leaves opposite along stems; upper leaves can be alternate; blades to 1/8 inch long; narrow, can be lobed; 3 to 7 lobes, lobes narrow to thread-like; soft hairs on leaf surfaces; dotted with glands.
Fruit Color: Blackish to brownish-yellow
Fruit Type: Achene
Fruit Notes: Covered with stiff, short hairs to long hairs on angles and at base, 4-angled; 1/8 inch long; topped with a tuft of hair with 8 white to tawny or purplish scales; 1/16 inch long.
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