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|accepted_name=Microseris elegans
|accepted_authority=Greene ex A. Gray in A. Gray et al.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in A. Gray et al., Syn. Fl. N. Amer.
|place=1(2): 419. 1884
|year=1884
}}
|common_names=Elegant silverpuffs
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Microseris aphantocarpha var. elegans
|authority=(Greene ex A. Gray) Jepson
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae;Microseris;Microseris elegans
|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>[[Microseris]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Microseris elegans]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 339, 345
|treatment_page=page 346
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals,</b> 5–35 cm; taprooted. <b>Stems</b> 0. <b>Leaves</b> basal; petiolate; blades linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 2–20 cm, margins entire, dentate, or pinnately lobed, apices acuminate, faces glabrous or lightly scurfy-puberulent. <b>Peduncles</b> erect or curved-ascending, ebracteate. <b>Involucres</b> globose to ovoid in fruit, 4–8(–10) mm. <b>Phyllaries</b>: apices acute to acuminate, faces glabrous; outer deltate; inner lanceolate (midveins often purple, thickened). <b>Florets</b> 5–100; corollas yellow or orange, equaling or surpassing phyllaries by 1–2 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> columnar to obconic, 1.5–3 mm; pappi of (4–)5 white or brownish, ovate to deltate, aristate scales 0.2–2.5 mm (straight or slightly arcuate, scarcely involute, glabrous, midveins linear, widths less than 1/5 bodies, thicker at base), aristae (brown, fine) barbellulate. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jun.
|habitat=Mostly clay soils, flats and hillsides, often near vernal pools, grasslands, shrublands
|elevation=10–700 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
|discussion=<p><i>Microseris elegans</i> is widespread in interior central California, becoming coastal in the southwestern part of its range. It was hypothesized to be one of the diploid ancestors of <i>M. campestris</i> (K. L. Chambers 1955); molecular evidence supporting that relationship was presented by D. Roelofs et al. (1997).</p>
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name=Microseris elegans
|author=
|authority=Greene ex A. Gray in A. Gray et al.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Microseris aphantocarpha var. elegans
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jun.
|habitat=Mostly clay soils, flats and hillsides, often near vernal pools, grasslands, shrublands
|elevation=10–700 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
|reference=None
|publication title=in A. Gray et al., Syn. Fl. N. Amer.
|publication year=1884
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae
|genus=Microseris
|species=Microseris elegans
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