Hulsea californica A.Gray

San diego alpinegold (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Hulsea

Characteristics

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.
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Growth form herb
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Distribution

Hulsea californica world distribution map, present in Mexico and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:225090-1
WFO ID wfo-0000063853
COL ID 3MT5W
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Synonyms

Hulsea californica Hulsea californica subsp. californica