Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Eriophyllum obovatum Greene, Erythea 3 : 123. 1895
EriophyUum lanatum obovatum H. M. Hall, Univ. Calif. Pub Bot. 3: 86. 1907.
A perennial, suffruticose at the base; stems erect, white-tomentose, 2-3 dm. high, leafy; leaves obovate or spatulate, or the upper oblanceolate, entire or minutely several-toothed, mostly acute, 1.5-3 cm. long, densely white with a strictly appressed rather shiny tomentum; heads solitary; peduncles 5-12 cm. long; involucre hemispheric, about 7 mm. high, 10-12 mm. broad, densely white-tomentose; bracts 10-12; ray-flowers about as many; ligules 6-7 mm. long, 3 mm. wide; disk-corollas 3.5-4 mm. long, the glandular tube nearly equaling the pulverulent throat; achenes 3 mm. long, angled and striate, glabrous; squamellae 8, unequal, oblong, the longer nearly 1 mm. long.
Type locality': San Bernadino Mountains, California. Distribution: Mountains of southern California.
- bibliographic citation
- Per Axel Rydberg. 1915. (CARDUALES); CARDUACEAE; HELENIEAE, TAGETEAE. North American flora. vol 34(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
