Townsendia incana |
Townsendia aprica |
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hoary Townsend daisy, hoary townsendia, silvery townsendia |
last chance Townsend daisy |
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Habit | Perennials, (1–)2–8(–12+) cm. | Perennials, 1–2 cm (± pulvinate). |
Stems | decumbent to erect; internodes (0.5–)2–6(–12+) mm, usually densely piloso-hirsute, sometimes strigoso-scabrellous (surfaces usually hidden by hairs). |
± erect; internodes 0.1–1 mm, ± strigose. |
Leaves | basal and cauline, blades spatulate to narrowly oblanceolate, 3–12(–40+) × 1–2(–4+) mm, not fleshy, ± strigoso-scabrellous to strigillose. |
basal and cauline, blades ± spatulate, 5–8(–16+) × 1.5–2.5+ mm, little, if at all, fleshy, faces ± strigose. |
Involucres | ± campanulate to hemispheric, (6–)10–15(–20) mm diam. |
± campanulate, 4–8+ mm diam. |
Ray florets | (8–)13–34+; corollas white or pinkish adaxially, laminae 5–8(–12+) mm, abaxially usually glabrous, sometimes glandular-puberulent at bases. |
13–21; corollas yellow adaxially, laminae 4–6+ mm, glandular-puberulent abaxially. |
Disc florets | 60–80+; corollas 4.5–6.5+ mm. |
25–60+; corollas 4–5+ mm. |
Phyllaries | 16–28+ in 3–4+ series, the longer ± lance-ovate to lanceolate, (6–)8–9(–12+) 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 (usually surpassed by leaves). |
± sessile. |
Cypselae | 3.5–4.5+ mm, faces hairy, hair tips glochidiform; pappi persistent; on ray cypselae 15–30 lanceolate or subulate to setiform scales 0.3–0.6 or 4–6+ mm; on disc cypselae 15–30+ subulate to setiform scales 4–6+ 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 incana |
Townsendia aprica |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jul. | Flowering Apr–May. |
Habitat | Sandy soils, rocky benches, shales, with pinyons and junipers | Clay hills |
Elevation | 1100–2200 m (3600–7200 ft) | 1500–2500 m (4900–8200 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CO; MT; NM; NV; UT; WY
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UT |
Discussion | 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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 199. | FNA vol. 20, p. 201. |
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Synonyms | T. arizonica | T. jonesii var. lutea |
Name authority | Nuttall: Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s. 7: 305. (1840) | S. L. Welsh & Reveal: Brittonia 20: 375, fig. 1. (1968) |
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