Lessingia glandulifera A.Gray
Family: Asteraceae
Valley Vinegar-Weed
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Keir Morse  

Plants 5-40 cm. Stems erect, tan, glabrous or villous to woolly. Leaves: basal withering before flowering; cauline margins ± entire, faces sessile-glandular, abaxial glabrous or villous to woolly. Heads borne singly at ends of branchlets. Involucres obconic to cylindric, 4-7 mm. Phyllaries green, glabrous or villous to tomentose, gland-dotted; inner scarious. Disc florets 10-30; corollas yellow (tubes without brown-purple band inside); style-branch appendages lanceolate, 0.3-1.3 mm. Pappi white to tan, equaling or longer than cypselae.

Lessingia glandulifera image
Keir Morse  
Lessingia glandulifera image
Keir Morse  
Lessingia glandulifera image
Keir Morse  
Lessingia glandulifera image
Zoya Akulova  
Lessingia glandulifera image
Zoya Akulova  
Lessingia glandulifera image
Zoya Akulova  
Lessingia glandulifera image
Charles Webber  
Lessingia glandulifera image
Charles Webber  
Lessingia glandulifera image
Barry Breckling