Lessingia virgata A.Gray

Wand lessingia (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Lessingia

Characteristics

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.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Distribution

Lessingia virgata world distribution map, present in United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:229928-1
WFO ID wfo-0000079694
COL ID 6Q3B3
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Synonyms

Lessingia virgata Lessingia virgata var. virgata