EcoFlora - Lagascea decipiens

Lagascea decipiens Hemsl.
Family: Asteraceae doll's head, more... [Lagascea liebmannii Sch. Bip. ex Klatt] José Jesús Sánchez-Escalante	SW Field Guide Resources Kearney and Peebles 1969 Common Name: doll's head Duration: Perennial Nativity: Native Lifeform: Shrub General: Herbaceous perennials, to 1 m tall, pubescent herbage. Leaves: Opposite, ovate with acuminate tips, petioled. Flowers: Heads 1-flowered, small, yellow, the corollas tubular, involucres of the individual heads tubular, gamophyllous, 5-6 toothed, flowers crowded at branch tips in dense glomerules, these subtended by a few herbaceous bracts. Fruits: Achenes columnar. Pappus a short crown. Ecology: Found in canyons from 3,000-4,000 ft (914-1219 m); flowering year-round. Distribution: Arizona; Mexico. Notes: Look for this species in Arizona in Santa Cruz and Pima counties. Ethnobotany: Unknown Etymology: Lagascea is an honorific for Marianio La Gasca y Segura, a 19th century Spanish botanist, while decipiens means deceptive, in some sense not what it appears to be. Synonyms: Calhounia decipiens, Nocca decipiens Editor: LCrumbacher2012
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