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Hall's mule-ears

Habit Plants 50–100 cm.
Stems

erect, usually branched distally.

Cauline leaves

blades ovate-lanceolate to deltate, (8–)10–15(–20) cm, bases truncate to subcordate, margins entire or finely dentate or serrulate, faces tomentulose to pilosulous (and gland-dotted).

Involucres

hemispheric, 25–40 mm diam.

Ray florets

10–14(–23), laminae (30–)50–60 mm.

Outer phyllaries

lanceolate, 20–30 mm (equaling or surpassing discs, tips often spreading to squarrose).

Heads

held beyond leaves.

Cypselae

8–12 mm, usually glabrous, sometimes distally strigillose;

pappi coroniform (lacerate, projected into scales on angles), (0.5–)1–2(–3) mm.

2n

= 38.

Agnorhiza elata

Phenology Flowering Jun–Jul(–Aug).
Habitat Open pine forests
Elevation 900–1200 m (3000–3900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
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Discussion

Agnorhiza elata is known only from foothills of the Sierra Nevada.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 21, p. 105.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Ecliptinae > Agnorhiza
Sibling taxa
A. bolanderi, A. invenusta, A. ovata, A. reticulata
Synonyms Wyethia elata
Name authority (H. M. Hall) W. A. Weber: Phytologia 85: 19. (1999)
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