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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Malacothrix floccifera
|accepted_authority=(de Candolle) S. F. Blake
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb.
|place=22: 656. 1924
|year=1924
}}
|common_names=Woolly desertdandelion
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Senecio flocciferus
|authority=de Candolle
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Malacothrix obtusa
|authority=Bentham
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Malacothrix parviflora
|authority=Bentham
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae;Malacothrix;Malacothrix floccifera
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Malacothrix]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Malacothrix floccifera]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 312, 315
|treatment_page=page 314
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals,</b> 10–40 cm. <b>Stems</b> 1–8, simple or branched proximally and/or distally, glabrous or proximally puberulent. <b>Cauline</b> leaves: proximal oblanceolate to obovate, usually pinnately lobed (lobes 4–6+ pairs, ± equal, apices obtuse), ± fleshy, ultimate margins dentate, abaxial faces usually white-arachnose (usually in patches on lobes); distal reduced (pinnately lobed or dentate proximally, lobes obtuse). <b>Calyculi</b> of 3–8+, ovate to lanceolate bractlets, hyaline margins 0.1–0.3 mm wide. <b>Involucres</b> campanulate, 5–7(–9) × 2.5–4(–5) mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> 13–21+ in 2–3 series, oblong or lanceolate to linear, hyaline margins 0.05–0.2 mm wide, faces glabrous. <b>Receptacles</b> bristly. <b>Florets</b> 21–60; corollas white or yellow (usually with abaxial lavender stripes), 7–15 mm; outer ligules exserted 5–9 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> ± cylindric to prismatic, 1.2–2 mm, ribs extending to apices, 5 more prominent than others; persistent pappi 0. <b>Pollen</b> 70–100% 3-porate. <b>2n</b> = 14.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–Nov.
|habitat=Burns, slides, road cuts, open areas, usually in loose soil (serpentine, gypsum, or brown-clay) in chaparral, pinyon/juniper woodlands, yellow-pine forests
|elevation=60–2000 m
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.
|discussion=<p><i>Malacothrix floccifera</i> grows in the Transverse Ranges in Ventura County, in the Coast Ranges to Siskiyou County, on foothills and slopes of Sierra <i>Nevada</i> from Lassen County to Fresno County, and in western <i>Nevada</i>, near Lake Tahoe.</p>
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name=Malacothrix floccifera
|author=
|authority=(de Candolle) S. F. Blake
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Malacothrix obtusa;Malacothrix parviflora
|basionyms=Senecio flocciferus
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–Nov.
|habitat=Burns, slides, road cuts, open areas, usually in loose soil (serpentine, gypsum, or brown-clay) in chaparral, pinyon/juniper woodlands, yellow-pine forests
|elevation=60–2000 m
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.
|reference=None
|publication title=Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb.
|publication year=1924
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae
|genus=Malacothrix
|species=Malacothrix floccifera
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