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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Perennial
General Desc:
Low, much branched, rounded or flat-topped subshrub, to 10 inches tall; branches slender ash-colored due to hairs; bark irregularly scaly & grayish; leaves numerous, narrow; ray flowers white to very pale yellow, green-veined below, disc flowers yellow.
Identification notes: Short, mound-forming subshrub, may be covered by white flower heads; leaf blades 1-nerved, narrow; flower heads on to 1-1/2 inches long stalks; ray flowers 5 to 7, usually white, can be faintly yellow, strongly green-veined beneath; disc flowers yellow.
Height:
4 to 10 inches
Habitat Description: Dry slopes and flats and sometimes on calcareous soils.
Plant Communities:
Desert Scrub, Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland
Elevation: 2500 - 5000 feet
Color:
White ray, yellow to pale yellow disc flowers
Shape:
Regular not in clusters
Tubular:
N
Flowering Period:
Apr - Oct
Description:
Ray flowers 4 to 7; corollas usually white, sometimes pale yellow, rounded, 1/4 to 1/2 inch long, strongly green veined beneath, remain on stems after bloom, strongly reflexed in fruit; disc flowers 8 to 13, yellow or tinged with purple (drying reddish).
Leaf Color:
Grayish-green to green
Leaf Type:
Simple
Leaf Shape:
Narrow
Leaf Margin:
Smooth
Leaf Attachment:
Opposite
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
Leaves and stems
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
Stems very hairy; leaves narrow to lance-like, often narrow, long and pointed like pine leaves, numerous, often longer than internodes, to 3/4 inch long, 1-veined, hairy, dotted with golden glands interspersed among hairs.
Fruit Type: Achene
Fruit Notes: 3-angled (ray) or compressed (disc), ribbed, hairy; topped usually with 1 to 3 unequal awns, sometimes reduced to teeth.
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