The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California

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Names are linked to treatments from the Manual


Key to TOWNSENDIA

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

  1. Leaves long-soft-woolly; pappus readily dehiscent
 T. condensata
  1' Leaves ± finely strigose; pappus ± firmly attached to fruit
 
    2. Fruit glabrous; leaves generally linear to oblanceolate, acute
 T. leptotes
    2' Fruit ± spreading-hairy; leaves oblanceolate to obovate, ± obtuse
 
      3. Stems (2)5–30 cm, leafy to middle or above
 T. parryi cpn
      3' Stems 2–8 cm, leafy only at base
 T. scapigera

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