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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.
Annual, perennial herb, subshrubs, decumbent to erect, taprooted
Stems simple or branched from base or above
Leaves simple, entire to pinnately lobed; basal petioled, ovate to spoon-shaped; cauline reduced upward, sessile, (ob)lanceolate to (ob)ovate
Inflorescence: heads radiate or discoid, terminal, solitary or clustered; involucres hemispheric, bell-shaped, obconic, or cylindric; phyllaries in 49 series, thin to tough but flexible, tips green or tinged purplish; receptacle concave, naked, shallowly pitted
Ray flowers present or 0, fertile or sterile; corollas yellow or white to purple
Disk flowers generally fertile (except L. occidentalis); corollas yellow, violet, purple, pink, or white, funnel-shaped to cylindric, marginal ones in rayless heads often enlarged and bilateral, deeply lobed on inner side, lobes spreading from head center; style appendages flat, triangular, awl-shaped, or cusped
Fruit obconic, mottled purple-brown; hairs dense, appressed, silky; pappus 0 in ray flowers, in disk flowers of many bristles, these free or fused at base, or fused throughout into awns, white, tan, or red-brown
Species in genus: 14 species: CA; NV, AZ, n Baja CA
Etymology: (C.F. Lessing, 18091862, German specialist in Asteraceae)
Incl CA sp. previously treated in Benitoa and Corethrogyne.
Native |
Annual; herbage thinly tomentose, persistently so on upper surface of cauline leaves
Stems ± erect 0.56 dm; branches spreading, > main stem
Leaves: basal deciduous, < 6 cm, entire, toothed or lobed; cauline 0.22 cm, linear, awl-shaped, or lanceolate, tip with abrupt point, mostly entire, with or without glands
Inflorescence: heads discoid, solitary or clustered, terminal or rarely sessile in axils; involucres 46 mm, narrowly cylindric-obconic; phyllaries lanceolate, generally with glands, tips purplish
Ray flowers 0
Disk flowers 310; corollas tubular, marginal ones slightly palmately lobed, white to lavender; style branches 0.71 mm, appendages 0.20.3 mm, with evident abrupt point
Fruit 24 mm; pappus bristles ± fused into 5 awns, white or tannish white
Chromosomes: 2n=10
Ecology: Thin, gravelly soils of serpentine outcrops and roadcuts
Elevation: < 500 m.
Bioregional distribution: San Francisco Bay Area.
Native |
Leaves: cauline with tack-shaped marginal glands
Inflorescence: phyllaries puberulent, with tack-shaped glands
Flowers 510 per head
Ecology: Thin, gravelly soils of serpentine outcrops and roadcuts
Elevation: 100500 m.
Bioregional distribution: n San Francisco Bay Area (Mount Tamalpais, Marin Co.)
Synonyms: L. ramulosa A. Gray var. m. (Greene) J.T. Howell