Lessingia ramulosa

A. Gray in G. Bentham

in G. Bentham, Pl. Hartw., 314. 1849.

IllustratedEndemic
Synonyms: Lessingia ramulosa var. adenophora (Greene) A. Gray
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 20. Treatment on page 456. Mentioned on page 453, 457.

Plants 20–50 cm. Stems erect, tan, stipitate-glandular. Leaves: basal usually persistent at flowering; cauline margins entire, faces stipitate-glandular, abaxial glabrous or glabrate. Heads borne singly, at ends of branchlets. Involucres hemispheric to campanulate, 5–7 mm. Phyllaries purple-tipped, glabrous, stipitate-glandular; inner scarious. Disc-florets 5–15; corollas lavender (color more intense in tubes); style-branch appendages truncate-penicillate, 0.1–0.3 mm. Pappi tan, longer than cypselae. 2n = 10.


Phenology: Flowering Jul–Oct.
Habitat: Open hills, roadsides, chaparral, woodlands, forests, often on serpentinite soils
Elevation: 100–1000 m

Discussion

Lessingia ramulosa is known from the northern San Francisco Bay area and North Coast ranges.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
... more about "Lessingia ramulosa"
glabrate +  and glabrous +
not tailed +, rounded +  and obtuse +
distinct +
subequal +
scarious +
usually triangular +  and linear +
usually deltate +  and lanceolate +
spiciform +, racemiform +, paniculiform +  and corymbiform +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
Staci Markos +
A. Gray in G. Bentham +
decurrent +
obovate;lanceolate linear or subulate +
rugulose +  and muricate +
barbellulate +  and barbellate +
not 2-lipped +  and actinomorphic +
yellow +, lavender +, pink +  and white +
5-10-nerved +  and smooth +
beaked +, 2-ribbed +  and 5-ribbed +
not compressed +, cuneiform +  and linear +
fertile +  and bisexual +
fertile +  and bisexual +
100–1000 m +
stipitate-glandular +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
Open hills, roadsides, chaparral, woodlands, forests, often on serpentinite soils +
in more or less corymbiform arrays +  and singly +
indeterminate +
heterogamous +  and homogamous +
each +  and sessile +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (1.3 cm13 mm <br />0.013 m <br />) +
hemispheric;campanulate +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
sessile +  and petiolate +
cauline +  and basal +
spreading;erect +
lanceolate +
dentate to pinnately lobed +  and entire +
2-carpellate +
persistent +
connate +  and distinct +
Flowering Jul–Oct. +
recurved +  and erect +
stipitate-glandular +  and glabrous +
lanceolate +, ovate +  and oblong +
in G. Bentham, Pl. Hartw., +
styliferous +, neuter +  and pistillate +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
exalbuminous +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
branched +  and simple +
stipitate-glandular +
truncate-penicillate +
0.01 cm0.1 mm <br />1.0e-4 m <br /> (0.03 cm0.3 mm <br />3.0e-4 m <br />) +
appendaged +  and truncate +
papillate +  and smooth +
Lessingia ramulosa var. adenophora +
Lessingia ramulosa +
Lessingia +
species +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (90 cm900 mm <br />0.9 m <br />) +