Plants rhizomatous or with woody caudices. Herbage glabrous or ± arachnose. Stems 1 (plants rhizomatous) or 2–3+ (plants with woody caudices), erect, freely branched, herbaceous, relatively leafy distally. Cauline leaves: proximal not pinnately lobed (lanceolate to lance-linear, margins entire or denticulate, apices acute to acuminate); distal lanceolate or elliptic to linear, margins entire or denticulate, apices acute to acuminate. Arrays of heads relatively crowded. Cypselae 2–2.5 mm. 2n = 18.

Phenology: Flowering Mar–Dec.
Habitat: Crumbling shale along roadcuts, in canyons, chaparral, foothill woodlands
Elevation: 200–1600 m

Distribution

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Calif.

Discussion

Variety commutata grows on the eastern face of the Transverse Range (Ventura County), in canyons in the Coast Ranges to Monterey County, and in the Breckenridge Mountains (Kern County).

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Lower Taxa

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