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Up-to-date information about California vascular plants is available from the Jepson eFlora.
Names are linked to treatments from the Manual
Key to RAFINESQUIA
N.B.: couplets are linked, e.g., 1. is linked to 1'.
1. Ligules 5–8 mm, 3–5 mm > phyllaries; fruit beak very slender, ± = and clearly different from body; side hairs of pappus bristles stiff, straight; California Floristic Province, Desert