View source for Lessingia nemaclada

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|accepted_name=Lessingia nemaclada
|accepted_authority=Greene
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci.
|place=1: 191. 1885
|year=1885
}}
|common_names=Slenderstem lessingia
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lessingia nemaclada var. albiflora
|authority=(Eastwood) J. T. Howell
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lessingia nemaclada var. mendocina
|authority=(Greene) J. T. Howell
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Lessingia;Lessingia nemaclada
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Astereae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Lessingia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Lessingia nemaclada]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 453
|treatment_page=page 456
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>5–60 cm. <b>Stems</b> erect, tan to brown, glabrous or villous. <b>Leaves</b>: basal withering by flowering; cauline margins entire, faces gland-dotted (in pits) and sometimes stipitate-glandular, abaxial glabrous or villous to tomentose. <b>Heads</b> borne singly or in corymbiform arrays, usually at ends of branchlets. <b>Involucres</b> narrowly obconic, 5–6 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> usually purple-tipped, faces glabrous, stipitate-glandular and gland-dotted; inner scarious. <b>Disc</b> florets 3–10; corollas usually white, sometimes pale lavender (color more intense in tubes); style-branch appendages usually lanceolate, sometimes truncate-penicillate, 0.4–1 mm. <b>Pappi</b> tan, equaling or longer than cypselae. <b>2n</b> = 10, 12.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jul–Oct.
|habitat=Open fields, roadsides, borders of woodlands, sometimes on serpentinite soils
|elevation=200–1100 m
|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p><i>Lessingia nemaclada</i> is widespread in central and northern California (except near the coast) and is morphologically variable.</p>
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name=Lessingia nemaclada
|author=
|authority=Greene
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Lessingia nemaclada var. albiflora;Lessingia nemaclada var. mendocina
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Jul–Oct.
|habitat=Open fields, roadsides, borders of woodlands, sometimes on serpentinite soils
|elevation=200–1100 m
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci.
|publication year=1885
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Lessingia
|species=Lessingia nemaclada
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