Description
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Plants ± erect, 3–15(–18+) cm. Leaf lobes narrowly lanceolate to linear, 8–20+ × 1–2(–5) mm, faces sparsely scabrellous and gland-dotted. Involucres ± turbinate or obconic to hemispheric, 5–6+ × 4–6+ mm. Ray florets 3–8; corollas pale yellow (sometimes ochroleucous), laminae 2–5 mm. Disc florets 20–35+; corollas 3–3.5 mm. Cypselae 3–4 mm, seldom gland-dotted, usually hirsutulous (at least at bases); pappus scales usually lanceolate to linear-subulate, 0.8–1.2(–2) mm. 2n = 24.
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Synonym
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Achyropappus woodhousei A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 6: 546. 1866; Bahia woodhousei (A. Gray) A. Gray
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Comprehensive Description
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Picradeniopsis woodhousei (A. Gray) Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club
37: 333. 1910.
Achyropappus Woodhousei A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 6: 546. 1865. Schkuhria Woodhousei A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 199. 1874. Bahia Woodhousei A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 19: 28. 1883.
A low suffruticose perennial; stem branched, slightly angled, grayish-puberulent ; leaves opposite, 3-cleft into linear, obtuse divisions, grayish-strigulose, distinctly punctate; heads short-peduncled; involucre turbinate, 5-6 mm. high, 6-8 mm. wide; bracts 8-10, oblong, obtuse, puberulent; ligules 6-8, oblong, 3 mm. long, white or ochroleucous ; diskflowers about 20; corollas 3 mm. long; achenes 4 mm. long, elongate-obpyramidal, hirsutulous; squamellae narrowly lanceolate, with a strong rib, acute.
Type locality: New Mexico. Distribution: New Mexico and Arizona.
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- Per Axel Rydberg. 1914. (CARDUALES); CARDUACEAE; HELENIEAE. North American flora. vol 34(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
