Lessingia nana

A. Gray in G. Bentham

in G. Bentham, Pl. Hartw., 315. 1849.

Common names: Dwarf lessingia
Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 20. Treatment on page 457. Mentioned on page 453.

Plants 2–5 (–25) cm. Stems decumbent, tan, woolly. Leaves: basal withering by flowering; cauline margins entire, faces gland-dotted (in pits), abaxial woolly. Heads borne singly or in corymbiform arrays, in axils of leaves or at ends of branchlets. Involucres obconic, 7–10 mm. Phyllaries green, faces woolly, gland-dotted; inner cartilaginous (stiff, white). Disc-florets 10–20; corollas white or pale lavender (color more intense in tubes); style-branch appendages truncate-penicillate, 0.2–0.4 mm. Pappi pink to red, longer than cypselae. 2n = 10.


Phenology: Flowering Jun–Oct.
Habitat: Open plains, often clay soils
Elevation: 200–900 m

Discussion

Lessingia nana is known from the northern Great Central Valley, adjacent foothills of the Sierra Nevada, and foothills of the Cascade Range.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
... more about "Lessingia nana"
not tailed +, rounded +  and obtuse +
distinct +
subequal +
scarious +
usually triangular +  and linear +
usually deltate +  and lanceolate +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
Staci Markos +
A. Gray in G. Bentham +
decurrent +
obovate;lanceolate linear or subulate +
rugulose +  and muricate +
barbellulate +  and barbellate +
Dwarf lessingia +
not 2-lipped +  and actinomorphic +
pale lavender +  and white +
5-10-nerved +  and smooth +
beaked +, 2-ribbed +  and 5-ribbed +
not compressed +, cuneiform +  and linear +
fertile +  and bisexual +
fertile +  and bisexual +
200–900 m +
gland-dotted;gland-dotted +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
Open plains, often clay soils +
in 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 />) +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
sessile +  and petiolate +
cauline +  and basal +
spreading;erect +
lanceolate +
dentate to pinnately lobed +  and entire +
2-carpellate +
pink +  and red +
persistent +
connate +  and distinct +
Flowering Jun–Oct. +
recurved +  and erect +
lanceolate +, ovate +  and oblong +
in G. Bentham, Pl. Hartw., +
styliferous +, neuter +  and pistillate +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
exalbuminous +
branched +  and simple +
decumbent +  and erect +
truncate-penicillate +
0.02 cm0.2 mm <br />2.0e-4 m <br /> (0.04 cm0.4 mm <br />4.0e-4 m <br />) +
appendaged +  and truncate +
papillate +  and smooth +
Compositae +
Lessingia nana +
Lessingia +
species +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (90 cm900 mm <br />0.9 m <br />) +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (25 cm250 mm <br />0.25 m <br />) +