Key to Dimorphotheca

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(For a list of species in Dimorphotheca, use the above link.)

Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots.

1. Annual; disk flowers 

bisexual 

Both male and female reproductive parts occurring and functional in the same plant or structure (e.g., flower, spikelet, inflorescence).

, forming fruits; adaxial face of ray yellow or orange, sometimes violet at base or tip ..... D. sinuata

1' Perennial herb or subshrub; disk flowers staminate; adaxial face of ray white or ± purple

2. Stem ± 

erect 

Upright; vertically oriented.

, <= 1 m; leaves linear-oblong to oblanceolate; heads solitary or in leafy, cyme-like cluster ..... D. ecklonis

2' Stem trailing to 

ascending 

Curving or angling upward from base, or about 30-60 degrees less than vertical or away from axis of attachment.

, rooting at ground contact, sometimes >> 1 m; leaves oblanceolate to obovate; heads generally solitary ..... D. fruticosa

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