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about 14 inch high, 10- to 15-flowered, often somewhat nodding; bracts of 

 involucre with thin blunt tips; seed-Hke fruits (achenes) with hair-like pappus 

 bristles white or more or less tawny. 



Occurrence. — YOSEMITE, near western park boundary up to about 3,000 feet. KINGS 

 CANYON: Kings River Canyon. SEQUOIA: Paradise-Castle Creek trail, 5,000 feet. 

 ZION : The Narrows, along trail, grand CANYON, common in the canyon, 3,200 to 6,500 

 feet: Bright Angel Trail; Indian Gardens; Kaibab Trail along ridge above Tip-off; 

 above Roaring Springs. 



5. Mountain Brickellia (Bnckellia Greenei Gray). — Low bushy plant 

 %. to 1^ feet high, woody below; herbage sticky-glandular; stems very leafy; 

 leaves egg-shaped, mostly toothed, 1/2 to 1 inch long, on very short stalks; 

 flowers whitish, the heads borne singly at the ends of the stems or arranged in 

 flat-topped clusters at the ends of side branches; involucres about 1/2 inch high, 

 the bracts linear, slender-pointed, with 2 to 4 longitudinal striations. 



Occurrence. — LASSEN : Lassen Peak, to 8,000 feet. 



6. Stiff-leaf Brickellia {Brickellia atractyloides Gray), fig. 145. — 

 Low round-topped shrub 1 to I1/2 feet high with slender brittle branches; bark 

 shreddy-scaly; leaves egg-shaped to triangular, 1/2 to 1 inch long, crisp, light 

 yellowish-green, with very prominent veins, the margins irregularly toothed; 

 heads about 1/2 inch high, broadly cylindric, the flowers yellow, fading to a 

 dingy white upon drying; involucral bracts somewhat unequal in length, the 

 outer oblong to elliptic, blunt-pointed, the inner a little longer, lance-shaped 

 to linear; seed-like achenes linear, dark brown, the longitudinal ridges finely 

 rough-hairy; pappus of numerous white hair-like bristles. 



Occurrence. — GRAND CANYON, common in the canyon, 2,500 to 3,500 feet: Bright 

 Angel trail near the Colorado River; Kaibab trail just belcw the Tonto south of the 

 river; Bright Angel trail about 2 miles above Phantom Ranch; Clear Creek trail below 

 Phantom Point. 



Baccharis (Baccharis L.) 



Field Guide to the Species 



Plants erect, 5 to 12 feet high; twigs not 4-angled; leaves conspicuous. 



Leaves lance-shaped, dark shiny green and sticky-glutinous above, ihe margins 



toothed; flower clusters more or less flat-topped or rounded 



1 . B. glulinosa. 



Leaves mostly oblong, pale green, not glutinous, the margins irregularly ffw- 



toothed; flower clusters oblong, spreading 2. B. hmory^i. 



Plants intricately branched bushy shrubs, 1 '/ 2 'o 4 feet high; stems 4-angied; leaves 



small and inconspicuous 3. B. ser^tloides. 



1. Seepwillow Baccharis (Baccharis glutinosa Pers.). — Erect or strag- 

 gling bushes 3 to 12 feet high with slender erect stems clumped at the base; 

 leaves narrowly oblong to lance-shaped, I1/2 to 6 inches long, dark shiny 

 green and sticky-glutinous above, 3 -nerved from the base, the margins toothed; 

 flowers white or greenish, borne in small tight heads, the male and female 

 heads on separate bushes; seed-like achenes very small, with a tuft of silky 

 white hairs at the top, packed together into soft brush-like heads and the 



