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Chaenactis xantiana
A. Gray
Family:
Asteraceae
Flesh-Color Pincushion,
more...
fleshcolor pincushion, Xantus pincushion
FNA
Resources
James D. Morefield in Flora of North America (vol. 21)
Plants
10-40 cm; proximal indument grayish, sparsely arachnoid, early glabrescent (usually glabrous by flowering).
Stems
mostly 1-5(-12); branches proximal and/or distal.
Leaves
basal (withering) and cauline, (1-)2-6 cm; largest blades linear or ± elliptic, ± plane or terete, ± succulent, 0-1-pinnately lobed; lobes 1-2(-5) pairs, remote, ± terete.
Heads
mostly 1-5(-7) per stem.
Peduncles
1-5(-8) cm, glabrous (and ± expanded) distally.
Involucres
broadly obconic to campanulate.
Phyllaries:
longest 10-18 mm (surpassed by florets); outer distally tomentulose-puberulent in fruit (proximally glabrous, not stipitate-glandular), apices ± squarrose, blunt, pliant.
Florets:
corollas (diurnal) dirty-whitish to pinkish, 6-10 mm (± equal to cypsela lengths, anthers exserted); peripheral corollas erect to ascending, actinomorphic, scarcely enlarged.
Cypselae
5-9 mm;
pappi
of 8 scales in 2, abruptly unequal series, longest scales 5-9 mm.
2
n
= 14.
Flowering late Mar-Jul. Open, deep, loose sandy (rarely gravelly) soils, arid and semiarid shrublands, chaparral; (100-)300-2500 m; Ariz., Calif., Nev., Oreg.
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