Encelia nutans
Encelia frutescens
nodding sunray, noddinghead
bush encelia, button brittlebush, rayless encelia
± subterranean (except peduncles).
with slender branches from trunks, glabrous, developing fissured barks.
basal;
petioles 20–35 mm;
blades green, broadly ovate, 30–40 mm, faces glabrous or substrigose (sometimes rugose).
cauline;
petioles 2–7 mm;
blades green, elliptic or narrowly ovate, 10–25 mm, apices obtuse, faces strigose.
hairy.
strigose.
12–22 mm.
6–12 mm.
0.
0.
yellow, 6–8 mm.
yellow, 5–6 mm.
lanceolate.
lanceolate.
borne singly (nodding in fruit).
borne singly.
7–12 mm;
pappi usually 0, rarely of 2 bristlelike awns.
6–9 mm;
pappi 0 or of 2 bristlelike awns.
= 36.
= 36.
Encelia nutans
Encelia frutescens
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.)
Plants of Encelia frutescens in the flora area are var. frutescens; var. glandulosa C. Clark, with glandular, strigose leaves, is found in northeastern Baja California and is not expected here.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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