Psathyrotes pilifera A. Gray

Annuals, 6–15 cm, glandular-pubescent, pilose, and furfur-aceous. Stems erect and spreading. Leaf blades rounded-rhombic, 7–14 × 6–14 mm, margins entire (faces, at least abaxial, with straight, multicellular hairs 2–3+ mm). Peduncles 4–20 mm. Involucres narrowly cylindric, 7–9 mm. Phyllaries ca. 13, outer persistent, 5, lanceolate, tips erect, inner falling, 8, lance-linear, tips erect. Florets 9–14; corollas yellow, often purplish at tips, ca. 8 mm. Cypselae 4–5 mm; pappi of ca. 150 subequal bristles in 2–4 series, 6–7 mm. 2n = 34.

Psathyrotes pilifera A Gray, Proa Am. Acad. 19: 50. 1880
A low winter-annual, or peftafM ih r . miial ; Item diffu tlj branched from the bale, 5-15
cm high, rurfuraceoai and with ■ few kmget hair 1-2 cm. long, Furfuraceoui and
ciliate, leaf-blade, rounded ovale, cuneatC at t li. base, entire, 6 I s mm long and aboill If broad, ciliate on the margins and veins, otherwise furfuraceous; peduncles 1 cm. long or less; involucre 8-10 mm. high, 5-6 mm. broad; bracts lanceolate, furfuraceous and ciliate, the outer obtuse, the inner acute; corolla 6-7 mm. long, the tube less than 1 mm. long, the lobes triangular, villous without, 0.5 mm. long; achenes nearly cylindraceous, tapering downward, strongly ribbed, short -hispid; pappus-bristles 5 mm. long.
Type locality: South Utah, near Kanab. Distribution: Southern Utah and northern Arizona.

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