Plants 5–40 cm. Stems erect, tan, glabrous or villous to woolly. Leaves: basal withering before flowering; cauline margins ± entire, faces sessile-glandular, abaxial glabrous or villous to woolly. Heads borne singly at ends of branchlets. Involucres obconic to cylindric, 4–7 mm. Phyllaries green, glabrous or villous to tomentose, gland-dotted; inner scarious. Disc florets 10–30; corollas yellow (tubes without brown-purple band inside); style-branch appendages lanceolate, 0.3–1.3 mm. Pappi white to tan, equaling or longer than cypselae.

Distribution

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w United States, nw Mexico.

Discussion

Varieties 3 (3 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Lessingia glandulifera var. glandulifera, Lessingia glandulifera var. peirsonii, Lessingia glandulifera var. tomentosa

Key

1	Phyllaries tomentose	Lessingia glandulifera var. peirsonii
1	Phyllaries glabrous or villous	> 2
2	Stems and abaxial leaf faces woolly (Warner Springs, San Diego County, California)	Lessingia glandulifera var. tomentosa
2	Stems and abaxial leaf faces glabrous or villous	Lessingia glandulifera var. glandulifera