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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Perennial Similar Species: A. frigida
General Desc:
Rounded shrubs with faintly aromatic herbage. Stems green or gray-green, wandlike, usually slender and curved but sometimes stout and stunted in harsh habitats, smooth or sparsely hairy.
Identification notes: Shrubs, woody at least near the base, 1 to 5 feet tall. Stems freely branching; twigs woolly and gray or white. Leaves long and narrow and threadlike, sometimes 3-parted, 1 to 3 inches long, woolly, gray or white in tight clusters.
Height:
1 to 5 feet
Habitat Description: Found in loose, sandy soils; in grasslands and dunes. More common north and east of Yavapai county.
Plant Communities:
Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Montane Conifer Forest
Elevation: 4000 - 6500 feet
Color:
Yellow
Shape:
Daisy or dandelion-like in round clusters
Tubular:
N
Flowering Period:
Aug - Nov
Description:
Heads in a narrow, branched cluster maturing from the bottom upwards. Numerous whorls of bracts below cluster, 1/16 inch high and as wide. 2 or 3 marginal flowers, fertile, bearing pistils but no stamens; 1 to 6 disc flowers, perfect but sterile.
Leaf Color:
Grayish-green
Leaf Type:
Simple
Leaf Shape:
Narrow
Leaf Margin:
Lobed
Leaf Attachment:
Alternate
Leaves Clasp:
Y
Hairs:
Leaves and stems
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
Leaves deciduous, alternate, long and narrow, attached directly to stem, grayish-green, 3/4 to 2-1/2 inches long, 1 or 3-parted, smooth or sparsely hairy.
Fruit Color: Light brown, yellowish
Fruit Type: Achene
Fruit Notes: Small, dry, fruit with single chamber and seed, oblong, less than 1/16 inch long, obscurely nerved, smooth.
Seed Notes: Single seed attached to the ovary wall at a single point, as in a sunflower.
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