Rigiopappus leptocladus A. Gray
Family: Asteraceae
False Wireweed
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Keir Morse  

Leaf blades mostly 9-30+ × 1-2(-5+) mm. Peduncles often wiry, ± hirsutulous to pilosulous near heads. Involucres 4-7+ mm. Ray corollas: tubes 1.5-2+ mm, laminae narrowly elliptic, 0.3-1 mm. Disc corollas: tubes 0.2-0.4 mm, throats 1-1.5 mm, lobes 0.1-0.3 mm. Cypselae 4-5 mm; pappi 1-4+ mm or much reduced (rays). 2n = 18.

Flowering Apr-Jul. Grassy sites, chaparral, pine forests, sagebrush scrub; 100-1600(-2300) m; Calif., Idaho, Nev., Oreg., Wash.

Rigiopappus leptocladus image
Keir Morse  
Rigiopappus leptocladus image
Keir Morse  
Rigiopappus leptocladus image
Keir Morse  
Rigiopappus leptocladus image
Keir Morse  
Rigiopappus leptocladus image
Keir Morse  
Rigiopappus leptocladus image
Zoya Akulova  
Rigiopappus leptocladus image
Zoya Akulova