Layia fremontii

(Torrey & A. Gray) A. Gray

Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n. s. 4: 103. 1849.

Endemic
Basionym: Calliachyris fremontii Torrey & A. Gray Boston J. Nat. Hist. 5: 110. 1845
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 21. Treatment on page 265. Mentioned on page 263.

Plants 8–40 cm (self-incompatible); not glandular, not strongly scented. Stems not purple-streaked. Leaf-blades lanceolate or oblanceolate to linear, 6–70 (–90) mm, margins (basal leaves) lobed (pinnatifid). Involucres hemispheric to depressed-hemispheric, 4–11 × 3–11+ mm. Phyllaries 3–15, apices often longer (sometimes shorter) than folded bases. Paleae subtending ± all disc-florets. Ray-florets 3–15; laminae proximally yellow, distally white or light yellow, 5–18 (–23) mm. Disc-florets 4–100+; corollas 3.5–4.5 mm; anthers ± dark purple. Ray cypselae glabrous. Disc pappi of 9–12 white to tawny, lance-attenuate, ± equal scales 2–5 mm, each neither plumose nor adaxially woolly. 2n = 14.


Phenology: Flowering Feb–May.
Habitat: Grasslands, meadows, open woodlands, disturbed sites, often valley bottoms, swales, edges of vernal pools, usually on heavy or shallow soils, sometimes serpentine
Elevation: 10–800 m

Discussion

Layia fremontii occurs in the Great Valley and adjacent foothills of the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
... more about "Layia fremontii"
not tailed +, rounded +  and obtuse +
dark purple +
pale +  and dark +
connate +  and distinct +
subequal +
scarious +
usually ovate +  and lanceolate +
usually deltate +  and lanceolate +
umbelliform +, spiciform +, paniculiform +, glomerulate +  and corymbiform +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
Bruce G. Baldwin +, Susan J. Bainbridge +  and John L. Strother +
(Torrey & A. Gray) A. Gray +
decurrent +
Calliachyris fremontii +
7 cm70 mm <br />0.07 m <br /> (9 cm90 mm <br />0.09 m <br />) +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (7 cm70 mm <br />0.07 m <br />) +
oblanceolate +  and linear +
compound +  and simple +
linear to linear-elliptic +
1-2-pinnatifid;oblanceolate;linear +
winged;ribbed;winged;ribbed +
tuberculate +  and rugose +
barbellulate +  and barbellate +
yellow +, bicolored +, white +  and cream +
0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br /> (0.45 cm4.5 mm <br />0.0045 m <br />) +
hairy +  and glabrous +
fusiform +, clavate +, obpyramidal +, terete +, compressed +  and obcompressed +
fertile +  and bisexual +
fertile +  and bisexual +
lance-attenuate +
10–800 m +
hirsute +  and strigose +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
Grasslands, meadows, open woodlands, disturbed sites, often valley bottoms, swales, edges of vernal pools, usually on heavy or shallow soils, sometimes serpentine +
in more or less corymbiform arrays +  and singly +
indeterminate +
homogamous +  and heterogamous +
each +  and sessile +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br />) +
hemispheric;depressed-hemispheric +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br />) +
1.8 cm18 mm <br />0.018 m <br /> (2.3 cm23 mm <br />0.023 m <br />) +
light yellow +, white +  and yellow +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1.8 cm18 mm <br />0.018 m <br />) +
petiolate +  and sessile +
alternate +  and opposite +
deltate +
dentate to pinnatifid or palmatifid +  and entire +
2-carpellate +
subtending +
persistent +
of 1 +  and 32 elliptic +
subulate +, setiform +, ovate +  and lance-attenuate +
Flowering Feb–May. +
3 +  and 15 +
alternate +  and opposite +
Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n. s. +
clavate +  and obcompressed +
flat;convex +
plumose +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
exalbuminous +
not purple-streaked +
appendaged +  and truncate +
hirsutulous +  and glabrous +
papillate +
Compositae +
Layia fremontii +
species +
cylindric +
entire +  and toothed +
60 cm600 mm <br />0.6 m <br /> (130 cm1,300 mm <br />1.3 m <br />) +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (60 cm600 mm <br />0.6 m <br />) +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +