The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California

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Names are linked to treatments from the Manual


Key to CARTHAMUS

N.B.: couplets are linked, e.g., 1. is linked to 1'.

  1. Corollas pale purple; cauline leaves ± deeply lobed
C. leucocaulos
  1' Corollas yellow to red; cauline leaves toothed to deeply lobed
 
    2. Cauline leaves dentate, weakly spiny; corollas yellow to red; fruit white
C. tinctorius
    2' Cauline leaves ± deeply lobed, very spiny; corollas yellow; fruit brown
 
      3. Outer phyllaries generally 2 × inner; herbage ± sparsely hairy; stem white
C. baeticus
      3' Outer phyllaries generally < 1.5 × inner; herbage ± cobwebby; stem straw-colored
C. lanatus


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