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Hall's mule-ears

El Dorado mule-ears

Habit Plants 50–100 cm. Plants mostly 40–70 cm.
Stems

erect, usually branched distally.

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).

blades (green) ovate-lanceolate to deltate, 6–15 cm, bases truncate or subcordate, margins entire or serrulate to crenate, faces sparsely hispid or scabrous (and finely gland-dotted, often vernicose).

Involucres

hemispheric, 25–40 mm diam.

hemispheric, 15–30 mm diam.

Ray florets

10–14(–23), laminae (30–)50–60 mm.

10–16(–21), laminae 20–25 mm.

Outer phyllaries

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

oblong to lanceolate or oblanceolate, 12–20+ mm (± equaling discs, tips usually spreading to squarrose).

Heads

held beyond leaves.

held beyond or among the leaves.

Cypselae

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

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

ca. 6 mm, glabrous;

pappi coroniform, 0.1–1 mm.

2n

= 38.

= 38.

Agnorhiza elata

Agnorhiza reticulata

Phenology Flowering Jun–Jul(–Aug). Flowering May–Jun.
Habitat Open pine forests Chaparral, oak woodlands
Elevation 900–1200 m (3000–3900 ft) 300–500 m (1000–1600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
CA
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

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

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

Of conservation concern.

Agnorhiza reticulata is known only from foothills of the Sierra Nevada and is considered to be globally endangered.

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

Source FNA vol. 21, p. 105. FNA vol. 21, p. 106.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Ecliptinae > Agnorhiza Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Ecliptinae > Agnorhiza
Sibling taxa
A. bolanderi, A. invenusta, A. ovata, A. reticulata
A. bolanderi, A. elata, A. invenusta, A. ovata
Synonyms Wyethia elata Wyethia reticulata
Name authority (H. M. Hall) W. A. Weber: Phytologia 85: 19. (1999) (Greene) W. A. Weber: Phytologia 85: 20. (1999)
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