Lessingia virgata

A. Gray in G. Bentham

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

Common names: Wand lessingia
Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 20. Treatment on page 458. Mentioned on page 453.

Plants 5–60 cm. Stems erect, tan, villous to woolly. Leaves: basal withering by flowering; cauline margins entire, faces gland-dotted (in pits), rarely also stipitate-glandular (glands sometimesobscured by tomentum), abaxial usually woolly, sometimes villous. Heads borne singly or in corymbiform arrays, usually in axils of leaves. Involucres narrowly obconic, 5–7 mm. Phyllaries green or purple-tipped, faces villous to woolly, gland-dotted or not; inner scarious. Disc-florets 3–6; corollas usually white, sometimes pale lavender (color more intense in tubes); style-branch appendages truncate-penicillate or lanceolate, 0.3–0.9 mm. Pappi white or tan, longer than cypselae. 2n = 10.


Phenology: Flowering Jun–Oct.
Habitat: Dry plains, and grassy openings of woodlands, sometimes volcanic soils
Elevation: 50–500 m

Discussion

Lessingia virgata is known from the foothills of the Cascade Range, foothills of the northern and central Sierra Nevada, and the northeastern Great Valley.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

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... more about "Lessingia virgata"
villous +  and woolly +
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 +
Wand 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 +
50–500 m +
not;gland-dotted;gland-dotted +
villous +  and woolly +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
Dry plains, and grassy openings of woodlands, sometimes volcanic 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 />) +
0.5 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 +
tan +  and white +
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 +
villous +  and woolly +
lanceolate +  and truncate-penicillate +
0.03 cm0.3 mm <br />3.0e-4 m <br /> (0.09 cm0.9 mm <br />9.0e-4 m <br />) +
appendaged +  and truncate +
papillate +  and smooth +
Compositae +
Lessingia virgata +
Lessingia +
species +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (90 cm900 mm <br />0.9 m <br />) +