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 Leaves Tony Frates @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) |  Plant Tony Frates @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) | | | | |
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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Annual, biennial or perennial Similar Species: Townsendia exscapa
General Desc:
Low-growing in leafy compact mounds a few inches wide; reddish hairy stems may be upright or bent. Hairy leaves grow mostly along the stems to just below the flower heads which grow singly at the top. Basal leaves are often withered by flowering.
Identification notes: Leaves narrow, basal and along stems; flower heads at tips of stems; flower head bracts in 3 to 5 series; ray flowers, 8 to 30, white or pinkish, female, fertile; disc flowers yellow, typically 20 to 80 with short scales at their base.
Height:
3/4 inch to 8 inches
Habitat Description: Found on sands, shales and clays, in open sites; dry mesas and slopes and desert scrub; juniper and pinyon communities.
Plant Communities:
Desert Scrub, Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland
Elevation: 3000 - 7000 feet
Color:
White, pink, purplish with yellow disc flowers
Shape:
Daisy or dandelion-like not in clusters
Tubular:
N
Flowering Period:
Mar - Sep
Description:
Flower heads have 8 to 30 elongated 1/3 inch flat ray flowers which are pink when in bud; disc flowers yellow, 1/16 inch, tube-shaped, numbering 20 to 80 (or more).
Leaf Color:
Dark green
Leaf Type:
Simple
Leaf Shape:
Narrow
Leaf Margin:
Smooth
Leaf Attachment:
Basal and alternate
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
Leaves and stems
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
Hairy reddish stems up to 8 inches long branching at the base and below the flower heads; narrow leaves to 2 inches long with a covering of short bristly hairs lying flat against the leaf surface.
Fruit Color: Brown
Fruit Type: Achene
Fruit Notes: Flattened, dry fruit are 1/8 inch to 1/4 inch long with rigid hairs and barbed at the tip.
Seed Notes: Each fruit bears a single brown seed which is attached to the thin, dry fruit husk by a short stalk so that the seed is easily detached.
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