Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Tetraneuris crandallii Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 32: 127. 1905
An acaulescent cespitose-pulvinate perennial; branches of the caudex densely whitehairy; leaves narrowly linear-oblanceolate, 4-6 cm. long, 2-3 mm. wide, sparingly long-hairy, soon glabrate; scape 1-3 dm. long, sparingly strigose; involucre about 8 mm. high, 10-12 mm. broad, sparingly silky-villous; ligules about 15 mm. long, 5-8 mm. wide; bracts linear-oblong; disk-corollas 4 mm. long; achenes densely hirsute, 4 mm. long; squamellae ovate, abruptly acuminate into an awn; body 1.5-2 mm. long.
Type locality: Grand Junction, Colorado. Distribution: Colorado.
- bibliographic citation
- Per Axel Rydberg. 1915. (CARDUALES); CARDUACEAE; HELENIEAE, TAGETEAE. North American flora. vol 34(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Tetraneuris epunctata A. Nelson, Bot. Gaz. 37: 275. 1904
Tetraneuris glabra Greene. Pittonia 3: 268, in part. 1898. Not Actinella glabra Xutt. 1841. Tetraneuris glabriuscula Rvdb. Bull. Torrey Club 33: 155. 1906. Actinella epunctata A. Nelson; Coult. & Nels. Man. 560. 1909.
An acaulescent cespitose perennial; leaves crowded, glabrate and bright-green, inconspicuously if at all punctate, linear-oblanceolate, 2-4 cm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, scarcely at all hairy at the base; scape about 1 dm. high, sparingly silky; involucre 7-8 mm. high, 12-15 mm.
broad, silky; bracts elliptic or oblong, acute or obtuse; ligules about 12 mm. long, 5 mm.
wide; disk-corollas 4 mm. long; achenes 3 mm. long, densely hirsute; squamellae 3 mm. long,
obovate, abruptly acuminate.
Type locality: Dyer Mine in the Uintah Mountains, Utah. Distribution: Colorado and Utah.
- bibliographic citation
- Per Axel Rydberg. 1915. (CARDUALES); CARDUACEAE; HELENIEAE, TAGETEAE. North American flora. vol 34(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
