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Yosemite tarplant, Yosemite tarweed

Habit Plants 5–15(–25) cm.
Leaves

blades 10–50 × 1–2 mm.

Ray florets

2–8;

laminae 0.5–3 mm.

Disc florets

1–7.

Invo

-lucres broadly obconic, 2.5–4 mm.

2n

= 16.

Jensia yosemitana

Phenology Flowering May–Aug.
Habitat Sandy places, meadows
Elevation 1200–2300 m (3900–7500 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
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Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Jensia yosemitana is known from widely scattered sites on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada, at higher elevations than most populations of J. rammii.

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

Source FNA vol. 21, p. 302.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Madiinae > Jensia
Sibling taxa
J. rammii
Synonyms Madia yosemitana
Name authority (Parry ex A. Gray) B. G. Baldwin: Novon 9: 465. (1999)
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