Lessingia lemmonii

Plant: Annual; herbage grayish tomentose, sometimes becoming glabrous with age; stems decumbent or erect, 0.3-4 dm Leaves: basal deciduous, < 6 cm, petioled, oblanceolate or long-tapered obovate, entire to pinnately lobed; cauline < 2 cm, awl-shaped or linear to obovate, entire or tip with few teeth, sessile, reduced upward INFLORESCENCE: primary inflorescence a head, each resembling a flower; heads discoid, solitary, terminal; involucres 4-6 mm, narrowly obconic to bell-shaped; phyllaries oblong, obtuse or acute, puberulent or tomentose, margins with large sessile glands; receptacle concave, naked, shallowly pitted Flowers: Ray flowers 0; Disk flowers 10-25; corollas funnel-shaped to tubular, marginal corollas funnel-shaped in small heads, yellow, with or without white band in throat; style branches 1-2 mm, appendages 0.7-1.3 mm, with long, abrupt point Fruit: 1.5-3.5 mm, obconic, mottled purple-brown; hairs dense, appressed, silky; pappus bristles many, free to base, white or tannish white Misc: Sandy soils; 200-1850 m.