EcoFlora - Lepidospartum squamatum

Lepidospartum squamatum A.Gray (redirected from: Lepidospartum squamatum var. palmeri (A.Gray) L.C.Wheeler)
Family: Asteraceae California Scalebroom [Lepidospartum squamatum var. palmeri (A.Gray) L.C.Wheeler, moreLinosyris squamata var. palmeri]	FNA Resources John L. Strother in Flora of North America (vol. 20) Shrubs or treelets, 10-250 cm, spreading or broomlike. Flowering stems mostly glabrous. Leaf blades (flowering stems) scale-like, appressed, deltate, 2-3 mm. Peduncles 0-5+ mm. Involucres turbinate, 4-7 mm. Phyllaries 12-23, ovate to lanceolate, sparsely tomentose or glabrous. Florets 9-17; corollas 5-9 mm. Cypselae 3.5-5 mm, 10-15-nerved, glabrous; pappi 5-8 mm. 2n = 60, 90. Flowering summer-fall. Sandy, gravelly soils, washes, terraces; 30-1600 m; Calif.; Mexico (Baja California).
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