CA, Sonoran Desert, 20071031
Chiriaco Pass, flowers.
S side of I-10, just to W along frontage road. Sunny gravel plain.
Pectis papposa papposa []
| GEN | tiny annual |
| LF | opp, thread, gland dotted margs, ~20x1mm |
| PHYL | 1 row, ~3x1mm, abrupt acute, gl at tip (subterm) |
| RECEPT | naked |
| RAY | yell, 7-8, ellip, 4x2mm, female |
| DISC | yell, 8-10?, bisex |
| OV | black, lin, min puber, 3mm |
| PAP | cap bristles, 1-2mm |
Palafoxia arida arida []
| GEN | large herb, LF alt lance, 60x8+10mm, all look bristly (antrorse), entire, petiolate |
| INFL | sev near term, all bisex, peduncle ~10mm |
| PHYL | 1 row, ~eq ovaries, 10x1.5mm, bristly |
| RECEPT | naked |
| RAY | none |
| DISC | white, ~15-20, big |
| PET | 9x5mm |
| OV | 10mm, lin |
| STYLE | well excl |
| PAP | 7mm, delt scale, scar marg, dk midvein |
Allionia incarnata []
| GEN | thick rootstock w many trailing sts radiating, all gland-bristly |
| LF | alt, ellip-lance, hairy, petiolate |
| INFL | in 3's, hairy bracts, looks like a single flower |
| SEP | none |
| PET | joined, bilat, hard to count lobes, lt purple |
| STAM | 4 |
| OV | inf |
| STYLE | 1, entire |
Plantago patagonica []
| GEN | annual, v soft hairy all over |
| LF | basal, sess, lin |
| INFL | short, dense
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| PET | 4 lobes, spread, ~1.0x1.75mm, ov, mucronate, scar, whitish |
| STAM | 4 |