Psilocarphus brevissimus Nutt.
Family: Asteraceae
Dwarf Woollyheads
Psilocarphus brevissimus image
Keir Morse  

Plants greenish to grayish, sericeous to densely lanuginose. Stems (1-)2-10, erect to prostrate; proximal internode lengths mostly 0.5-1.5(-2) times leaf lengths. Capitular leaves ± erect, appressed to heads (sometimes spreading), linear-lanceolate to ovate, widest in proximal 2/3, longest 8-25 mm, lengths mostly 1.5-6 times widths, 1-2.5(-3) times head heights. Heads ± spheric, rarely ovoid, largest 6-14 mm. Receptacles unlobed or ± lobed. Pistillate paleae hidden by or visible through indument, longest 2.8-4 mm (lengths 1.5-6 times longest diams.; wings subapical to ± median). Staminate corollas 0.8-1.6 mm, lobes mostly 5. Cypselae narrowly obovoid, ± compressed, 0.8-1.9 mm. 2n = 28.

Psilocarphus brevissimus image
Keir Morse  
Psilocarphus brevissimus image
Barry Rice  
Psilocarphus brevissimus image
Barry Rice  
Psilocarphus brevissimus image
Barry Rice  
Psilocarphus brevissimus image
Gary A. Monroe  
Psilocarphus brevissimus image
Gary A. Monroe  
Psilocarphus brevissimus image
Zoya Akulova  
Psilocarphus brevissimus image
Barry Breckling  
Psilocarphus brevissimus image
Barry Breckling  
Psilocarphus brevissimus image
Barry Breckling