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|accepted_name=Townsendia montana
|accepted_authority=M. E. Jones
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser.
|place=2, 5: 697. 1895
|year=1895
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Townsendia alpigena
|authority=Piper
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Townsendia alpigena var. caelilinensis
|authority=(S. L. Welsh) Kartesz & Gandhi
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Townsendia montana var. caelilinensis
|authority=S. L. Welsh
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Astereae;Townsendia;Townsendia montana
|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>[[Townsendia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Townsendia montana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 195
|treatment_page=page 201
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> mostly 1–2+ cm (usually ± pulvinate). <b>Stems</b> ± erect; internodes 0.1–1(–2) mm, strigose. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline, blades ± spatulate to oblanceolate, 10–35+ × 2–5+ mm, not fleshy, faces usually ± strigose, sometimes glabrous. <b>Heads</b> usually on scapiform peduncles 5–60+ mm, sometimes sessile. <b>Involucres</b> hemispheric to campanulate, 8–15 mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> 18–32 in 3–4+ series, the longer ± oblanceolate, 6–9 mm (l/w = 3–5), glabrate, or sparsely strigillose, apices obtuse to acute, abaxial faces glabrous. <b>Ray</b> florets 13–21+; corollas usually white, sometimes pink or blue, adaxially, laminae 6–12 mm, abaxially usually glandular-puberulent, sometimes glabrous. <b>Disc</b> florets 30–60+; corollas 3.5–5.5 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> 4.5 mm, faces glabrous or hairy at bases, hair tips glochidiform; pappi persistent; on ray cypselae 24–30+ subulate to setiform scales 5–6 mm; on disc cypselae 24–30+ subulate to setiform scales 5.5–6.6 mm. <b>2n</b> = 18, 36.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering (May–)Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Meadows, granite and limestone ridges
|elevation=2000–3100 m
|distribution=Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Oreg.;Utah;Wyo.
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|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Townsendia montana
|authority=M. E. Jones
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Townsendia alpigena;Townsendia alpigena var. caelilinensis;Townsendia montana var. caelilinensis
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering (May–)Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Meadows, granite and limestone ridges
|elevation=2000–3100 m
|distribution=Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Oreg.;Utah;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser.
|publication year=1895
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V20_444.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Astereae
|genus=Townsendia
|species=Townsendia montana
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