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|accepted_name=Lessingia virgata
|accepted_authority=A. Gray in G. Bentham
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in G. Bentham, Pl. Hartw.,
|place=315. 1849
|year=1849
}}
|common_names=Wand lessingia
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Lessingia;Lessingia virgata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Astereae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Lessingia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Lessingia virgata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 453
|treatment_page=page 458
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism some measurement;whole_organism growth form"><b>Plants </b>5–60 cm.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem orientation;stem coloration;stem pubescence"><b>Stems </b>erect, tan, villous to woolly.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="basal leaf life cycle"><b>Leaves:</b> basal withering by flowering;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="cauline margin architecture or shape;face coloration;face pubescence;abaxial face pubescence;abaxial face pubescence">cauline margins entire, faces gland-dotted (in pits), rarely also stipitate-glandular (glands sometimesobscured by tomentum), abaxial usually woolly, sometimes villous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="head arrangement;head arrangement;array architecture"><b>Heads </b>borne singly or in corymbiform arrays, usually in axils of leaves.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="involucre shape;involucre some measurement"><b>Involucres </b>narrowly obconic, 5–7 mm.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="phyllarie coloration;phyllarie architecture;face pubescence;face coloration;face coloration"><b>Phyllaries </b>green or purple-tipped, faces villous to woolly, gland-dotted or not;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="inner phyllarie texture">inner scarious.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="disc-floret quantity"><b>Disc-</b>florets 3–6;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="corolla coloration;corolla coloration">corollas usually white, sometimes pale lavender (color more intense in tubes);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="style-branch appendage shape;style-branch appendage shape;style-branch appendage some measurement">style-branch appendages truncate-penicillate or lanceolate, 0.3–0.9 mm.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties=""><b>Pappi </b>white or tan, longer than cypselae.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="pappus coloration;pappus coloration;pappus length or size;2n chromosome quantity">2n = 10.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun–Oct.
|habitat=Dry plains, and grassy openings of woodlands, sometimes volcanic soils
|elevation=50–500 m
|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p>Lessingia virgata is known from the foothills of the Cascade Range, foothills of the northern and central Sierra Nevada, and the northeastern Great Valley.</p>
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name=Lessingia virgata
|authority=A. Gray in G. Bentham
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun–Oct.
|habitat=Dry plains, and grassy openings of woodlands, sometimes volcanic soils
|elevation=50–500 m
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=in G. Bentham, Pl. Hartw.,
|publication year=1849
|special status=Endemic
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Lessingia
|species=Lessingia virgata
|2n chromosome quantity=10
|abaxial face pubescence=villous;woolly
|array architecture=corymbiform
|basal leaf life cycle=withering
|cauline margin architecture or shape=entire
|corolla coloration=pale lavender;white
|disc-floret quantity=3;6
|face coloration=not;gland-dotted;gland-dotted
|face pubescence=villous;woolly
|head arrangement=in corymbiform arrays;singly
|inner phyllarie texture=scarious
|involucre shape=obconic
|involucre some measurement=5mm;7mm
|pappus coloration=tan;white
|pappus length or size=longer
|phyllarie architecture=purple-tipped
|phyllarie coloration=green
|stem coloration=tan
|stem orientation=erect
|stem pubescence=villous;woolly
|style-branch appendage shape=lanceolate;truncate-penicillate
|style-branch appendage some measurement=0.3mm;0.9mm
|whole_organism growth form=plant
|whole_organism some measurement=5cm;60cm
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