Townsendia texensis
Texas Townsend daisy
decumbent to erect;
internodes 5–20+ mm, strigose.
basal and cauline, blades oblanceolate to lance-linear, 20–45(–60+) × 2–4(–6+) mm, not fleshy, faces ± strigose.
± campanulate to hemispheric, 12–15(–20+) mm diam.
25–40+;
corollas white or purplish adaxially, laminae 9–18 mm, abaxially usually glabrous, sometimes glandular-puberulent.
80–120+;
corollas 3.5–5 mm.
40–44 in 4–5+ series, the longer ± lanceolate, 5–9+ mm (l/w = 2.5–5), apices acute to attenuate (soft, not apiculate), abaxial faces strigose.
at tips of stems (usually surpassed by leaves).
3.5–4 mm, faces hairy, hair tips glochidiform;
pappi persistent;
on ray cypselae ± 20 lanceolate to subulate scales 0.5–0.8(–2+) mm;
on disc cypselae 16–24 subulate to setiform scales 5 mm.
= 18.
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