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Pringle's Woolly Sunflower

Eriophyllum pringlei A. Gray

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Annuals, 1–5 cm. Stems ± spreading. Leaves: blades ± cuneate, 3–10 mm, usually 3-lobed, ultimate margins entire, strongly revolute (apices ± rounded), faces woolly. Heads borne singly or in clusters. Peduncles ± 0.1 cm. Involucres broadly campanulate to hemispheric, 3–5+ mm diam. Phyllaries 6–8, distinct. Ray florets 0. Disc florets 10–20; corollas ± 2 mm (tubes cylindric, throats broadly cylindric, abruptly dilated, lobes glandular; anther appendages deltate, tapering distally, not glandular). Cypselae 1.5–2 mm; pappi of 5–12 ± oblanceolate scales ± 1 mm. 2n = 14 + 0–1 B or 0–1 I, 16.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of North America Vol. 21: 354, 355 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Comprehensive Description

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Actinolepis pringlei (A. Gray) Greene, Fl. Franc. 441. 1897
Eriophyllum Pringlei A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 19: 25. 1883.
A diffusely branched annual; stems 1-5 cm. high, loosely villous; leaves spatulate, 1 cm. long or less, longvillous, 3-lobed at the apex ; heads densely white-villous, tomentose, clustered at the ende, leafy-bracted; involucre campanulate, about 6 mm. high and 5 mm. broad; bracts 6-S, elliptic, boat-shaped; rays wanting; corollas 2.5 mm. long, the glandular tube longer than the campanulate throat; achenes densely brown -hoar}', 2 mm. long; squamellae about 10, silvery, lanceolate, cleft into several short bristle-like divisions.
Type locality: Mohave Desert, California. Distribution: Southern California and Arizona.
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Per Axel Rydberg. 1915. (CARDUALES); CARDUACEAE; HELENIEAE, TAGETEAE. North American flora. vol 34(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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Eriophyllum pringlei

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Eriophyllum pringlei is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name Pringle's woolly sunflower.[2] It is native to the southwestern United States (Arizona, Nevada, California) and northern Mexico (Baja California), where it grows in several types of desert, canyon, and hillside habitat, such as chaparral and sagebrush.[3][2][4]

Eriophyllum pringlei is a petite annual herb no more than about 8 centimeters (3.2 inches) high, growing in woolly tufts. The lobed leaves are up to about a centimeter (0.4 inches) long and coated in white woolly fibers. The inflorescence is a cluster of flower heads filled with 10-20 golden yellow disc florets but no ray florets.[4]

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Eriophyllum pringlei: Brief Summary

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Eriophyllum pringlei is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name Pringle's woolly sunflower. It is native to the southwestern United States (Arizona, Nevada, California) and northern Mexico (Baja California), where it grows in several types of desert, canyon, and hillside habitat, such as chaparral and sagebrush.

Eriophyllum pringlei is a petite annual herb no more than about 8 centimeters (3.2 inches) high, growing in woolly tufts. The lobed leaves are up to about a centimeter (0.4 inches) long and coated in white woolly fibers. The inflorescence is a cluster of flower heads filled with 10-20 golden yellow disc florets but no ray florets.

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