Townsendia florifera |
Townsendia aprica |
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last chance Townsend daisy |
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Habit | Biennials (perhaps flowering first year, sometimes persisting), 3–12(–15+) cm. | Perennials, 1–2 cm (± pulvinate). |
Stems | decumbent to erect; internodes 3–12(–15+) mm, piloso-strigose. |
± erect; internodes 0.1–1 mm, ± strigose. |
Leaves | basal and cauline, blades spatulate to linear, 10–25(–50+) × 2–3(–8+) mm, not fleshy, faces ± strigose. |
basal and cauline, blades ± spatulate, 5–8(–16+) × 1.5–2.5+ mm, little, if at all, fleshy, faces ± strigose. |
Involucres | ± hemispheric or broader, 16–20(–30) mm diam. |
± campanulate, 4–8+ mm diam. |
Ray florets | 13–34+; corollas white or pinkish adaxially, laminae (8–)10–18+ mm, abaxially usually glandular-puberulent, rarely glabrous. |
13–21; corollas yellow adaxially, laminae 4–6+ mm, glandular-puberulent abaxially. |
Disc florets | (80–)100–150+; corollas (4–)5.5–6+ mm. |
25–60+; corollas 4–5+ mm. |
Phyllaries | 24–30+ in 3–4+ series, the longer ± lanceolate, (6–)9–11+ mm (l/w = 2.5–5), apices acute, abaxial faces strigose. |
24–40+ in 4+ series, the longer ± lanceolate, 4–7 mm (l/w = 2.5–5), sometimes glabrate, apices acute to attenuate, abaxial faces usually sparsely strigillose or glandular-puberulent. |
Heads | at tips of stems. |
± sessile. |
Cypselae | (3.5–)4–5+ mm, faces hairy, hair tips entire or forked; pappi persistent; on ray cypselae 20–30 subulate to setiform scales 2–6 mm; on disc cypselae 20–30+ subulate to setiform scales (4–)5–7+ mm. |
2–2.5 mm, faces hairy, hair tips glochidiform; pappi persistent; on ray cypselae 10–12 lanceolate to subulate scales 0.5–1+ mm; on disc cypselae 20+ subulate to setiform scales 4–5+ mm. |
2n | = 18. |
= 18. |
Townsendia florifera |
Townsendia aprica |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun(–Aug). | Flowering Apr–May. |
Habitat | Gravelly flats with junipers and sagebrush | Clay hills |
Elevation | 400–2300 m (1300–7500 ft) | 1500–2500 m (4900–8200 ft) |
Distribution |
ID; MT; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY |
UT |
Discussion | J. H. Beaman (1957) considered plants intermediate between Townsendia florifera and T. parryi to be hybrids. Such intermediates occur in Montana (e.g., Jones in 1905 from Gallatin Co. and Suksdorf 282 from Park Co.), outside the known distribution of T. florifera. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Of conservation concern. Townsendia aprica is questionably distinct from T. jonesii. Townsendia aprica is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 198. | FNA vol. 20, p. 201. |
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Synonyms | Erigeron florifer, T. florifera var. watsonii | T. jonesii var. lutea |
Name authority | (Hooker) A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 16: 84. (1880) | S. L. Welsh & Reveal: Brittonia 20: 375, fig. 1. (1968) |
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