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Coast Range Mule Ears

Wyethia glabra A. Gray

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Wyethia glabra grows in the Coast Ranges, often in the fog belt.
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Flora of North America Vol. 21: 100, 101 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Plants 15–40(–60) cm. Basal leaves: blades oblong-lanceolate to elliptic-ovate, 20–30(–40) cm, margins entire or ± serrate-dentate (often undulate), faces glabrous or finely stipitate-glandular, sometimes sparsely pilosulous as well (usually shining); cauline leaves similar, smaller. Heads usually borne singly (–2+). Involucres hemispheric or broader, 35–60+ mm diam. Phyllaries 22–24+, unequal, herbaceous, margins not ciliate, faces glabrous or abaxial finely stipitate-glandular; outer (30–)40–70 mm (foliaceous, much surpassing discs). Ray florets (8–)12–27; laminae 15–25(–35) mm. Cypselae 10–13 mm, puberulent and/or finely stipitate-glandular (at least distally).
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Flora of North America Vol. 21: 100, 101 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Wyethia glabra

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Wyethia glabra is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name Coast Range mule's ears. It is endemic to California, where it grows in the North and Central Coast Ranges. It is a perennial herb growing from a tough taproot and caudex unit and producing a stem up to 40 centimeters tall. It is hairless to hairy and glandular. The leaves have lance-shaped or oval blades up to 45 centimeters long. The inflorescence is usually a solitary flower head or occasionally a cluster of 2 or more. The head has lance-shaped leaflike phyllaries at the base. It contains up to 21 yellow ray florets each up to 5 centimeters long and many yellow disc florets. The fruit is an achene over a centimeter long, including its pappus.

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Wyethia glabra: Brief Summary

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Wyethia glabra is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name Coast Range mule's ears. It is endemic to California, where it grows in the North and Central Coast Ranges. It is a perennial herb growing from a tough taproot and caudex unit and producing a stem up to 40 centimeters tall. It is hairless to hairy and glandular. The leaves have lance-shaped or oval blades up to 45 centimeters long. The inflorescence is usually a solitary flower head or occasionally a cluster of 2 or more. The head has lance-shaped leaflike phyllaries at the base. It contains up to 21 yellow ray florets each up to 5 centimeters long and many yellow disc florets. The fruit is an achene over a centimeter long, including its pappus.

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