Perityle rupestris

Plants 4–25(–35)+ cm (profusely branched, leafy); hirsute, pilose, or puberulent. Leaves: petioles 3–13 mm; blades ovate, subcordate, subdeltate, or subreniform, 5–17(–22) × 5–17(–30) mm, margins almost entire to irregularly serrate or serrate-lobed (faces pilose to hirsute). Heads borne singly or in corymbiform arrays, 6–8 × 3–5 mm. Peduncles 2–13(–20) mm. Involucres subcylindric, subfunnelform, or narrowly campanulate. Phyllaries 8–10(–14), narrowly lanceolate to oblanceolate, 3.5–7 × 1–2 mm. Disc florets 8–16; corollas yellow or white, tubes 0.8–1.3 mm, throats tubular to subfunnelform, 1.8–3 mm, lobes 0.5–1.3 mm. Cypselae (1.8–)2–2.5 mm; pappi of (16–)20–30 bristles 1–3(–3.5) mm.

Distribution

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Discussion

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Perityle rupestris var. albiflora, Perityle rupestris var. rupestris

Key

1	Corollas white	Perityle rupestris var. albiflora
1	Corollas yellow	Perityle rupestris var. rupestris