Key to Hymenoxys
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(For a list of species in Hymenoxys, use the above link.)
Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots.
1. Leaf entire 
Having margins that are continuous and smooth (i.e., without teeth, lobes, etc.).
– outer
phyllaries >= 11 mm, inner >= 7.5 mm
..... H. hoopesii 1' Leaf entire or 1–2-pinnately divided into
linear 
Elongate, with nearly parallel sides; narrower than elliptic or oblong.
lobes 
1. A major expansion or bulge, such as on the margin of a leaf, sepal, or petal, or on the surface of an ovary. 2. The free tips of otherwise fused structures, such as sepals or petals; larger than teeth.
2' Biennial or
perennial 
Completing life cycle (germination through death) in more than two years or growing seasons, generally non-woody (at least above ground) to woody; includes perennial herbs as well as subshrubs to trees; the abbreviation 'per' only refers to perennial herb, not to the word 'perennial' alone.
herb 3. Biennial or perennial herb, (1)2–8(10) dm, flowering once;
stems 1–3(15);
leaf 
Organ arising from a stem, generally composed of a stalk (petiole) and a flat, expanded, green, photosynthetic area (blade); distinguished from a leaflet by the presence in its axil of a bud, branch, thorn, or flower; sometimes with lateral, basal appendages (stipules); either simple (toothed, lobed, or dissected but not divided into leaflets) or compound (divided into leaflets).
± hairy
..... H. cooperi 3' Perennial herb 3–5 dm, flower > once; stems 3–10(15); leaf
glabrous or sparsely hairy
..... H. lemmonii
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