Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Eriophyllum lanceolatum Howell, Fl. NW. Am. 1: 355. 1900
A perennial, with a suffruticose decumbent base; stems several, erect, 2-4 dm. high, densely tomentose; leaves rather thick, oblanceolate, sharply serrate, acute, subsessile, 2-3 cm. long, densely and yellowish white-tomentose on both sides; heads solitary; peduncles 3-5 cm. long; involucre hemispheric, about 8 mm. high, 12-14 mm. broad, white-tomentose; bracts 10-20; ray-flowers 10-20; ligules golden-yellow, 7-8 mm. long, 2 mm. wide; diskcorollas about 4 mm. long; tube densely glandular, shorter than the throat and limb; achenes slightly glandular-granuliferous or hispidulous; squamellae S-10, oblong, unequal in length, 0.5-0.7 mm. long, obtuse or truncate.
Type locality: Siskiyou Mountains near Ashland. Oregon.
DISTRIBUTION: Siskiyou Region of Oregon and California.
- bibliographic citation
- Per Axel Rydberg. 1915. (CARDUALES); CARDUACEAE; HELENIEAE, TAGETEAE. North American flora. vol 34(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
