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|accepted_name=Malacothrix sonchoides
|accepted_authority=(Nuttall) Torrey & A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. N. Amer.
|place=2: 486. 1843
|year=1843
}}
|common_names=Sow-thistle desertdandelion
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Leptoseris sonchoides
|authority=Nuttall
|rank=species
|publication_title=Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s.
|publication_place=7: 439. 1841
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Malacothrix runcinata
|authority=A. Nelson
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae;Malacothrix;Malacothrix sonchoides
|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>[[Malacothrix]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Malacothrix sonchoides]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 311, 312
|treatment_page=page 320
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals,</b> (5–)10–25(–50) cm. <b>Stems</b> 1–5, ascending to erect, branched near bases and distally, usually glabrous (sometimes glaucous), rarely stipitate-glandular. <b>Cauline</b> leaves: proximal narrowly oblong to elliptic, pinnately lobed (lobes 3–8+ pairs, oblong to triangular, ± equal, apices obtuse to acute), ± fleshy, ultimate margins dentate to denticulate, faces glabrous; distal reduced (narrowly triangular to linear, bases ± dilated, ± clasping). <b>Calyculi</b> of 8–12+, ovate to lanceolate bractlets, hyaline margins 0.05–0.3(–0.7) mm wide, usually glabrous (margins sometimes stipitate-glandular). <b>Involucres</b> ± campanulate to hemispheric, 7–13 × 4–6(–12+) mm. <b>Receptacles</b> bristly. <b>Florets</b> 75–115; corollas lemon yellow, 10–14(–16) mm; outer ligules exserted 6–10(–13) mm. <b>Cypselae</b> ± cylindro-fusiform to prismatic, 1.8–3 mm, ribs extending to apices, ± equal or 5 more prominent than others; pappi persistent, crenate crowns of 15–25+, blunt or rounded teeth. <b>Pollen</b> 70–100% 3-porate. <b>2n</b> = 14.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–Jun.
|habitat=Usually on dunes or in deep, fine sand in arroyos and on plains in Joshua tree woodlands, grasslands, Ephedra-Coleogyne associations
|elevation=300–2100 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;Nev.;N.Mex.;Utah;Wyo.
|discussion=<p><i>Malacothrix sonchoides</i> grows in California in the Mojave Desert (Los Angeles, Kern, San Bernardino, and Riverside counties), the Great Basin Desert (Inyo Mountains), and barely enters the northern margins of the Sonoran Desert. It also grows in the Intermountain Region in Arizona, Colorado, <i>Nevada</i>, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Malacothrix sonchoides
|authority=(Nuttall) Torrey & A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Malacothrix runcinata
|basionyms=Leptoseris sonchoides
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–Jun.
|habitat=Usually on dunes or in deep, fine sand in arroyos and on plains in Joshua tree woodlands, grasslands, Ephedra-Coleogyne associations
|elevation=300–2100 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;Nev.;N.Mex.;Utah;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. N. Amer.
|publication year=1843
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae
|genus=Malacothrix
|species=Malacothrix sonchoides
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