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Lagophylla dichotoma

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Habit Plants 10–60+ cm (strongly self-incompatible); branching ± pseudo-dichotomous, distal stems eglandular or sparsely stipitate-glandular.
Leaves

blades green, usually eglandular (distal eglandular or stipitate-glandular, glands mostly purple, some yellow).
Involucres

± hemispheric to obovoid.
Ray laminae

7–13 mm.
Phyllaries

4–6.5 mm, ± hirtellous to scabrellous on angles, hairs ± antrorsely curved, 0.1–0.6 mm.
Calyculi

0 or of 2–3 bractlets.
Heads

in paniculiform arrays.
Cypselae

dull (striate).
2n

= 14.

Lagophylla dichotoma
Phenology Flowering Apr–Jun.
Habitat Grasslands, openings in woodlands
Elevation 50–900 m (200–3000 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA
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Discussion

Lagophylla dichotoma occurs in the western Sierra Nevada foothills and adjacent eastern San Joaquin Valley and in the northern South Inner Coast Ranges (where plants are notably stipitate-glandular, unlike most Sierran and San Joaquin Valley collections).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 21, p. 261.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Madiinae > Lagophylla
Sibling taxa
L. glandulosa, L. minor, L. ramosissima
Name authority Bentham: Pl. Hartw., 317. (1849)
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