Stephanomeria tenuifolia
| Stephanomeria tenuifolia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Stephanomeria |
| Species: | S. tenuifolia
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| Binomial name | |
| Stephanomeria tenuifolia (Raf.) H.M.Hall
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Stephanomeria tenuifolia, the narrow-leaved wire-lettuce or narrow leaved stephanomeria, is a perennial plant in the family Asteraceae that grows in the Great Basin of the western United States.[1]: 60 It has five ray flowers that give it the appearance of being petals of a single flower of a plant in another plant family.[1]: 60
Growth pattern[edit]
It grows with much branching from 1⁄2 to 2 feet (0.15 to 0.61 m).[1]: 60
Leaves and stems[edit]
Leaves are threadlike.
Inflorescence and fruit[edit]
The inflorescence is a head with 5 square-tipped, petal-like ray flowers and sepal-like phyllaries.[1]: 60
Fruits are seeds attached to parachute-like pappi.[1]: 60
Habitat and range[edit]
Narrow leaved stephanomeria grows in the plains and dry slopes in sagebrush steppe, mixed conifer, and mountain shrub communities in the Great Basin.[1]: 60 In California it can be found in sagebrush scrub, Northern juniper woodland, yellow pine forest, red fir forest, lodgepole forest, and subalpine forest plant communities.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f Great Basin Wildflowers, Laird R. Blackwell, 2006, Morris Book Publishing LLC., ISBN 0-7627-3805-7
- ^ Stephanomeria tenuifolia, Calflora