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|accepted_name=Chaenactis cusickii
|accepted_authority=A. Gray in A. Gray et al.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in A. Gray et al., Syn. Fl. N. Amer. ed.
|place=2. 1(2): 452. 1886
|year=1886
}}
|common_names=Morning brides;Cusick’s pincushion
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae;Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Chaenactidinae;Chaenactis;Chaenactis sect. Chaenactis;Chaenactis cusickii
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Chaenactidinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Chaenactis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Chaenactis sect. Chaenactis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Chaenactis cusickii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 21
|mention_page=page 400, 408, 409
|treatment_page=page 410
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>3.5–10(–15) cm; proximal indument grayish, sparsely arachnoid, glabrescent. <b>Stems</b> mostly 1–5; branches mainly proximal. <b>Leaves</b> basal (withering) and cauline (not notably smaller or sparser distally), 1–4 cm; largest blades ± oblanceolate, plane, ± succulent, not lobed (margins entire or distally ± crenate). <b>Heads</b> mostly 1–5(–12) per stem. <b>Peduncles</b> 0.5–2.5 cm, glabrescent distally (sparsely arachnoid early; bracts 1–2, leaflike, surpassing heads). <b>Involucres</b> ± hemispheric to campanulate. <b>Phyllaries</b>: longest 6–9(–10) mm (surpassed by florets); outer (uniformly) sparsely arachnoid to glabrescent in fruit, not stipitate-glandular (inner apically brownish-villosulous), apices usually erect, blunt, ± rigid. <b>Florets</b>: corollas (diurnal) white to pinkish, 3–7 mm (± equaling cypselae; anthers exserted); peripheral corollas ± erect, actinomorphic, scarcely enlarged. <b>Cypselae</b> 4–6 mm; pappi of (8–)10–14 scales in 2–3 gradually unequal series, longest scales 1.5–3.5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 12.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late Apr–Jun.
|habitat=Light-colored shrink-swell clay soils from volcanic ash and tuff, semiarid shrublands
|elevation=700–1300(–1800) m
|distribution=Idaho;Oreg.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Chaenactis cusickii</i> is known from Malheur County, Oregon, and adjacent Owyhee and Canyon counties, Idaho. Its relationship to other species is obscure.</p>
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name=Chaenactis cusickii
|authority=A. Gray in A. Gray et al.
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering late Apr–Jun.
|habitat=Light-colored shrink-swell clay soils from volcanic ash and tuff, semiarid shrublands
|elevation=700–1300(–1800) m
|distribution=Idaho;Oreg.
|reference=None
|publication title=in A. Gray et al., Syn. Fl. N. Amer. ed.
|publication year=1886
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/eaa6e58056e40c9ef614d8f47aea294977a1a5e9/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V21_1028.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae
|subtribe=Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Chaenactidinae
|genus=Chaenactis
|section=Chaenactis sect. Chaenactis
|species=Chaenactis cusickii
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