Franseria albicaulis

Franseria albicaulis Torr. PI. Frem. 16. 1853
Franseria dumosa albicaulis A. Gray, in Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. Surv. 87. 1859.
A low branched shrub, 2 dm. high or more; branches numerous, finely tomentose when young; leaves 1-3 cm. long, pinnatifid or bipinnatifid, with oblong divisions, which are about 1 mm. broad, finely canescent; heads rather few, racemose, the pistillate and staminate ones often intermixed; staminate head on peduncles 1-3 mm. long; involucre saucer-shaped or somewhat turbinate, about 3 mm. wide, canescent; lobes 7 or 8, broadly ovate; paleae linearspatulate, 1-nerved, somewhat pubescent; anther-tips triangular, incurved; pistillate heads 2-flowered; fruit 4-5 mm. long, globose, somewhat glandular-puberulent ; beaks 2, conic-subulate, straight; spines 30-40, subulate, flat, not hooked, 2 mm. long.
Type locality: "Southern California, probably on the Gila" [now Arizona].
Distribution: Southern Utah to southern California, Sonora, and Lower California.