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 Flower heads and leaves Gregory Gust @http://swbiodiversity.org. Usage Rights: CC BY-NC (Attribution-Non-Commercial) |  Plant Patrick Alexander @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) | | | | |
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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Annual
General Desc:
Forms rounded mounds; stems smooth, fork repeatedly, not hairy, spread horizontally then become upright; spicy- or lemon-scented; leafy plant with small yellow flower heads having ray and disc flowers, clustered at branch ends.
Identification notes: Often forms round bushes, spicy-scented; leaves narrow, margins with 1 to 3 bristles, dotted by glands; flower heads in congested rounded clusters, bracts narrow dotted by glands; ray flowers mostly 8, disc flowers 6 to 34; achenes have feathery bristles.
Height:
Trailing to 12 inches
Habitat Description: Lower and upper dry desert, pinyon-juniper, chaparral, open sunny areas, rocky hillsides, mesas, sandy and gravelly areas and common along roadsides.
Plant Communities:
Desert Scrub, Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Disturbed Areas
Elevation: Below 6000 feet
Color:
Yellow
Shape:
Daisy or dandelion-like in round clusters
Tubular:
N
Flowering Period:
Jun - Nov
Description:
Flowers bright yellow in small clusters of 2 to 4+ flower heads on leafy branch tips; phyllaries (bracts) 7 to 9, narrow, have conspicuous glands below their tips; 6 to 34 disc flowers, can be glandular and hairy; 8 ray flowers, 1/4 inch long.
Leaf Color:
Green
Leaf Type:
Simple
Leaf Shape:
Narrow
Leaf Margin:
Smooth
Leaf Attachment:
Opposite
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
No
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
Leaves narrow to thread-like, curved; dotted with conspicuous oval glands along the margins, mostly smooth (without hairs); 2 to 5 pairs of bristles near base.
Fruit Color: Black
Fruit Type: Achene
Fruit Notes: Sparse stiff hairs, disc achenes topped by 12 to 20 sparsely short-feathery or slightly barbed bristles, ray achenes rarely have bristles.
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