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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Logfia depressa
|accepted_authority=(A. Gray) Holub
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Preslia
|place=70: 107. 1998
|year=1998
}}
|common_names=Dwarf cottonrose;spreading cottonrose;hierba limpia
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Filago depressa
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
|publication_title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication_place=19: 3. 1883
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Oglifa depressa
|authority=(A. Gray) Chrtek & Holub
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Gnaphalieae;Logfia;Logfia depressa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Gnaphalieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Logfia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Logfia depressa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 443, 444, 450, 452
|treatment_page=page 446
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>1–5(–10) cm. <b>Stems</b> (1–)3–10+, typically ± prostrate; branches ± leafy between proximal forks, remaining grayish to whitish, lanuginose. <b>Leaves</b> elliptic to obovate, largest 6–8(–10) × 1–2 mm, pliant; longest capitular leaves mostly 0.8–1.5 times head heights, obtuse. <b>Heads</b> in glomerules of 2–5 in ± dichasiiform arrays, ± pyriform, largest 3–4 × 2–2.5 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b> 0, vestigial, or 1–4, unequal, ± like paleae. <b>Receptacles</b> obovoid, 0.9–1.2 mm, heights 1.4–1.6 times diams. <b>Pistillate</b> paleae (except innermost) 7–13 in 2(–3) series, spirally ranked, loosely saccate, incurved 20–60°, somewhat gibbous, not galeate, longest 2.1–3.1 mm, distal 20–50% of lengths glabrous abaxially; bodies (except midnerves) chartaceous, ± terete; wings prominent. <b>Innermost</b> paleae ± 5, spreading in 1 series, pistillate. <b>Pistillate</b> florets: outer 7–13 epappose, inner (4–)10–21 pappose. <b>Bisexual</b> florets 2–5; corollas 1.3–2 mm, lobes mostly 5, yellowish to brownish. <b>Cypselae</b>: outer nearly straight, ± erect, compressed, 0.7–0.9 mm; inner mostly smooth; pappi of (11–)13–15 bristles falling in 1s or 2s, 1.3–2.4 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering and fruiting mostly Feb–May.
|habitat=Desert flats, alluvial slopes, loose sandy to gravelly soils, openings among shrubs, often with extra moisture (dry drainages, roadsides), rarely outside deserts
|elevation=0–1500 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Nev.;Mexico (Baja California;Sonora).
|discussion=<p>Reported to be eaten by desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii), <i>Logfia depressa</i> is known from the Mojave Desert and most of the Sonoran Desert (except islands and lower Colorado River valley) including arid Baja California; isolated collections are known from southwestern California and Carson City, <i>Nevada</i> (where recently extirpated).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Logfia depressa
|authority=(A. Gray) Holub
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Oglifa depressa
|basionyms=Filago depressa
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering and fruiting mostly Feb–May.
|habitat=Desert flats, alluvial slopes, loose sandy to gravelly soils, openings among shrubs, often with extra moisture (dry drainages, roadsides), rarely outside deserts
|elevation=0–1500 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Nev.;Mexico (Baja California;Sonora).
|reference=None
|publication title=Preslia
|publication year=1998
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V19_737.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Gnaphalieae
|genus=Logfia
|species=Logfia depressa
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