Perityle rupestris
SouthW. Naturalist 4: 204. 1959.
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.
Discussion
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).
Selected References
None.
Key
| 1 | Corollas white | Perityle rupestris var. albiflora |
| 1 | Corollas yellow | Perityle rupestris var. rupestris |