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 Leaves Patrick Alexander @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)atrick Alexander @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-Sh |  Plant Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) |  Seeds Patrick Alexander @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)atrick Alexander @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-Sh | | | |
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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Perennial
General Desc:
Plant has a woody base or creeping rhizomes; several stems per plant, branching from the base; erect, slender, brittle stems, hairless and grayish-green.
Identification notes: Wiry, slender diffusely branching stems; opposite, thread-like, lobed leaves at lower 3/4 of the stems; yellow disc flowers; bracts inner row fused; outer row tiny and reflexed; plant often coated with white powdery substance.
Height:
1 to 2-1/2 feet
Habitat Description: Disturbed places on sands or clays, oak/juniper woodlands, desert scrub, ponderosa pine forests.
Plant Communities:
Desert Scrub, Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest, Disturbed Areas
Elevation: 1000 - 9500 feet
Color:
Yellow
Shape:
Daisy or dandelion-like not in clusters
Tubular:
N
Flowering Period:
May - Oct
Description:
Disc flowers are at the end of long leafless stems; surrounded by green bracts; often with reddish brown veins; 1/2 inch wide; 1/2 inch long; no ray flowers.
Leaf Color:
Grayish-green
Leaf Type:
Simple
Leaf Shape:
Pinnatifid
Leaf Margin:
Smooth
Leaf Attachment:
Basal and opposite
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
No
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
Mainly basal; opposite along lower 1/2 to 3/4 of stems; internodes 1-1/2 to 4 inches; leaves divided into thread-like, linear or narrowly inverse lance-like lobes; 3/4 to 1-1/2 inches long; up to 1/16 inch wide.
Fruit Type: Achene
Fruit Notes: Achene; 1/4 to 1/2 inch long; topped with pappus of 2 stout barbed awns; about 1/16 inch long.
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