Hymenoxys bigelovii

(A. Gray) K. F. Parker

Madroño 10: 159. 1950.

Common names: Bigelow’s rubberweed
Endemic
Basionym: Actinella bigelovii A. Gray Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 5(6): 96. 1853
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 21. Treatment on page 440. Mentioned on page 435, 436.

Perennials, 20–70 cm (polycarpic, often with sparingly branched, woody caudices). Stems 1–5, green throughout or purple-red-tinted distally to throughout, usually unbranched distally, ± hairy (often tomentose proximally). Leaves: blades usually simple, rarely lobed (lobes 3), glabrous or ± hairy, eglandular or sparsely gland-dotted (basal leaf bases ± long-villous-woolly); mid leaves usually simple, rarely lobed (lobes 3, terminal lobes 1.5–3 mm wide). Heads 1–5 per plant, usually borne singly, sometimes in paniculiform arrays. Peduncles (1.5–)6–20(–29) cm, ± hairy, densely tomentose distally near involucres. Involucres hemispheric to broadly campanulate, 13–20 × 23–32 mm. Phyllaries in 2 series, unequal; outer 13–19, basally connate only slightly to 1/5 their lengths, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate to obovate to oblanceolate, 7–11 mm, apices acuminate to acute; inner 13–18, narrowly lanceolate to oblanceolate, 8.5–12.6 mm, apices aristate. Ray florets 13–15; corollas yellow, 13–26 × 5.4–9.5 mm. Disc florets 100–250+; corollas 5.7–7.4 mm. Cypselae narrowly obpyramidal, 4.2–4.7 mm; pappi of 9–11(–15) obovate to oblanceolate, often aristate scales 4.7–7.3 mm. 2n = 30.


Phenology: Flowering May–Jun.
Habitat: Roadsides, edges of juniper-pine and pine forests
Elevation: 1300–2500 m

Discussion

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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