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Annual to tree
Leaves basal or cauline, alternate to whorled, simple to compound
Inflorescence: 1° inflorescence a head, each resembling a flower, 1many, generally arrayed in cymes, generally subtended by ± calyx-like involucre; flowers 1many per head
Flowers bisexual, unisexual, or sterile, ± small, of several types; calyx 0 or modified into pappus of bristles, scales, or awns, which is generally persistent in fruit; corolla radial or bilateral (rarely 0), lobes generally (0)45; stamens 45, anthers generally fused into cylinder around style, often appendaged at tips, bases, or both, filaments generally free, generally attached to corolla near throat; pistil 1, ovary inferior, 1-chambered, 1-seeded, style 1, branches 2, generally hair-tufted at tip, stigmas 2, generally on inside of style branches
Fruit: achene, cylindric to ovoid, generally deciduous with pappus attached
Genera in family: ± 1300 genera, 21,000 species (largest family of dicots): worldwide. Largest family in CA. Also see tribal key to CA genera: Strother 1997 Madroño 44(1):128. See glossary p. 25 for illustrations of general family characteristics.
Shrubs < 50 dm, resinous, generally gland-dotted
Leaves < 10 cm, thread-like to wedge-shaped, entire
Inflorescence various; heads radiate or discoid; involucre 314 mm, obconic to hemispheric; phyllaries in 26 series, ± lanceolate to ovate, generally resinous, tips erect to recurved, obtuse to acuminate or tailed, midrib often thickened with a resin gland
Ray flowers 030; corollas 212 mm, generally yellow
Disk flowers 470+; corollas 311 mm, yellow
Fruit 28 mm, ribbed; pappus white to brown
Species in genus: ± 27 species: w North America
Reference: [Nesom 1990 Phytologia 68:144155]
Generally flowers summer/autumn. Some species hybridize with Chrysothamnus nauseosus.
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Plant 540 dm, glabrous to puberulent, gland-dotted when young
Leaf < 40 mm, linear, acute
Inflorescence: heads radiate, many; involucre 58.5 mm, 3.54.5 mm diam, obconic to ± cylindric; phyllaries 1624 in 45 series, < disk flowers, oblong, tips greenish, oblong or acute, margins narrow, white, ciliate
Ray flowers 18; corollas 46 mm
Disk flowers 520; corollas 58 mm
Fruit 34 mm, subcylindric, 47-angled, hairy; pappus of disk flowers > corollas, brown
Ecology: Plains, foothills
Elevation: < 800 m.
Bioregional distribution: South Coast, Channel Islands, w Sonoran Desert
Distribution outside California: n Baja California
Synonyms: Haplopappus p. A. Gray
See E. ericoides.