Luina hypoleuca
Hooker’s Icon. Pl. 12: 36, plate 1139. 1873.
IllustratedEndemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 20. Treatment on page 628.
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Stems spreading or erect. Leaves sessile; blades ovate to lanceolate, 18–65 × 7–40 mm, abaxially lanate, adaxially usually glabrous and shiny, rarely sparsely tomentulose, then usually glabrescent. Peduncles 10–50 mm. Phyllaries 6–14, ovate to lanceolate, 5–9 mm. Florets 11–23; corollas pale yellow, 8–11 mm. Cypselae 3–4 mm, 9-nerved, glabrous or strigose; pappi of 80–120 bristles 8–10 mm. 2n = 60.
Phenology: Flowering summer.
Habitat: Open, usually rocky, places, sometimes on serpentine
Elevation: 70–2100 m
Distribution
B.C., Calif., Oreg., Wash.
Discussion
Selected References
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Lower Taxa
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