Comments
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Xylorhiza orcuttii grows in Imperial, Riverside, and San Diego counties.
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Description
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Shrubs, 50–150 cm. Stems branched to near apices, glabrous (younger stems and branchlets glabrous, eglandular). Leaf blades spatulate to oblong or lanceolate, 5–26 mm wide, bases attenuate to cuneate or subauriculate-subclasping, margins flat, spinulose-dentate to subentire, faces glabrous or sericeous along veins. Peduncles 1–7 cm. Involucres 17–20 × 20–45 mm. Phyllaries tightly appressed, outermost glabrous, innermost equaling or longer than mid. Ray florets (18–)27–38(–45); corollas light blue to lavender. Style-branch appendages shorter than stigmatic lines. 2n = 12.
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Synonym
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Aster orcuttii Vasey & Rose, Bot. Gaz. 16: 113. 1891; Machaeranthera orcuttii (Vasey & Rose) Cronquist & D. D. Keck
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