Encelia nutans
Encelia californica
nodding sunray, noddinghead
bush sunflower, California brittlebush
± subterranean (except peduncles).
with slender branches from bases, glabrous, developing smooth or roughened barks.
basal;
petioles 20–35 mm;
blades green, broadly ovate, 30–40 mm, faces glabrous or substrigose (sometimes rugose).
cauline;
petioles 5–25 mm;
blades green, rhombic or narrowly ovate, 30–60 mm, apices acute, faces glabrous.
hairy.
pubescent.
12–22 mm.
10–12 mm.
0.
15–25;
corolla laminae 15–35 mm.
yellow, 6–8 mm.
brown-purple, 5–6 mm.
lanceolate.
lanceolate.
borne singly (nodding in fruit).
borne singly.
7–12 mm;
pappi usually 0, rarely of 2 bristlelike awns.
5–7 mm;
pappi 0.
= 36.
= 36.
Encelia nutans
Encelia californica
Encelia nutans shares the apically notched and glabrous-faced cypselae of the genus, but its geophyte habit, especially the ephemeral nature of its aboveground parts, is unique in either Encelia or Enceliopsis.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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