Hulsea californica

Torrey & A. Gray in War Department [U.S.]

in War Department [U.S.], Pacif. Railr. Rep. 6(3): 77. 1858.

Common names: San Diego alpinegold
EndemicConservation concern
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 21. Treatment on page 397. Mentioned on page 396.

Biennials or perennials, 40–120 cm. Stems (1–) 3–10, leafy, lanate to woolly. Leaves basal and cauline; blades gray to grayish green, broadly oblanceolate to spatulate, 6–10 cm, margins undulate to weakly lobed, faces densely lanate; distal cauline leaves lanceolate to narrowly obovate, gradually reduced. Heads 2–5. Involucres broadly conic to hemispheric, 15–26 mm diam. Phyllaries 9–14 mm, outer lanceolate, apices attenuate. Ray-florets 22–40; corolla-tubes glabrous, laminae yellow, 9–12 mm. Disc corollas yellow. Cypselae 4–6 mm; pappus-scales subequal, 1–2 mm. 2n = 38.


Phenology: Flowering late spring–summer.
Habitat: Often common after fires, open sites in chaparral and woodlands, mostly rocky, metamorphic soils
Elevation: 1000–2000 m

Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Hulsea californica grows in the eastern Peninsular Ranges, San Diego County.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
... more about "Hulsea californica"
not tailed +, rounded +  and obtuse +
connate +  and distinct +
attenuate +
subequal +
scarious +
usually ovate +  and lanceolate +
usually deltate +  and lanceolate +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
Dieter H. Wilken +
Torrey & A. Gray in War Department [U.S.] +
decurrent +
compound +  and simple +
gray +  and grayish green +
broadly oblanceolate;spatulate +
6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br /> (10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br />) +
winged;ribbed;winged;ribbed +
tuberculate +  and rugose +
barbellulate +  and barbellate +
connate +  and distinct +
San Diego alpinegold +
yellow +  and orange +
stipitate-glandular +  and hairy +
compressed +, clavate +  and linear +
fertile +  and bisexual +
fertile +  and bisexual +
lanceolate +  and narrowly obovate +
1000–2000 m +
scabrellous +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
campanulate +  and cylindric +
Often common after fires, open sites in chaparral and woodlands, mostly rocky, metamorphic soils +
in corymbiform arrays +  and singly +
indeterminate +
homogamous +  and heterogamous +
each +  and sessile +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (2.6 cm26 mm <br />0.026 m <br />) +
broadly conic;hemispheric +
0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
sessile +  and petiolate +
alternate +  and whorled +
cauline +  and basal +
deltate +  and lanceovate +
dentate to pinnatifid or palmatifid +  and entire +
undulate +  and weakly lobed +
2-carpellate +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
persistent +
quadrate +  and spatulate +
unequal +  and subequal +
Flowering late spring–summer. +
14 +  and 35 +
0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br /> (1.4 cm14 mm <br />0.014 m <br />) +
in War Department [U.S.], Pacif. Railr. Rep. +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
distinct +
4 +  and 20 +
laciniate +
exalbuminous +
Endemic +  and Conservation concern +
1 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
lanate +  and woolly +
3 +  and 10 +
appendaged +  and truncate +
hirsutulous +  and glabrous +
papillate +
Undefined (tribe Undefined) subtribe Bahiinae +  and Undefined (tribe Undefined) subtribe Palafoxiinae +
Hulsea californica +
species +
cylindric +
80 cm800 mm <br />0.8 m <br /> (300 cm3,000 mm <br />3 m <br />) +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (80 cm800 mm <br />0.8 m <br />) +
toothed +  and entire +
80 cm800 mm <br />0.8 m <br /> (300 cm3,000 mm <br />3 m <br />) +
perennial +  and biennial +
40 cm400 mm <br />0.4 m <br /> (120 cm1,200 mm <br />1.2 m <br />) +
80 cm800 mm <br />0.8 m <br /> (300 cm3,000 mm <br />3 m <br />) +
shrub +  and subshrub +