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35 Eriophyllum Lag. Golden Yarrow 
Perennial herbs, woody and branched at the base with alternate, densely 
white-woolly pinnatifid leaves. Heads few on ratheystout peduncles which 
are gradually dilated upwards, their involucres hemispherical or campanulate, 
consisting of a single series of rather rigid oblong-lanceolate woolly bracts; 
receptacle conical, naked, Kay-flowers vistillate and fertile, yellow; 
dise-flowers yellow, Achenes prismatic, strongly 4-angled, bearing a white 
pappus of irregular chaffy scales, 
le BE. lanatum (Pursh) Forbes, Perennial herbs branching at the base with 
several ascending or decumbent stems, 20-40 cm, tall, densely white-woolly 
throughout, leaves numerous, 1-5 cm. long, ovate or obovate in outline, 
pinnately 3-5-toothed or lobed, narrowed to an indefinite petiole, densely 
white-woolly, becoming less so and ashy in age; heads hemispheric on woolly 
peduncles 5-10 cm. long, their involucral bracts 8-12, strongly overlapping, 
8-9 mm, tall, firm, oblong, or oblong-lanceolate, subacute, woolly on the 
outer surface, glabrous within; ray-flowers 6-12, golden-yellow, their corollas 
8-12 mm. longs; achenes 3,5 mm, long, 5-6 mm.wide, the pappus scales variable 
but generally scarcely .5mm, tall. 
Frequent in rock-crevices or dry rocky soil at low elevations, 
var. integrifolium (Hook.) Smiley, Stems usually lower, 10-20 om, tall, 
sparingly branched; heads campanulate, 6-8 mm, high, their bracts 6-8, 
chartaceous, little overlapping, carinate,—- —— a 
7 Occasional over the southern part of our area; thie-varm, often wet—wett 11! 
defined in our region, emd-intermeciateolants occasional, 
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