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WILD FLOWERS OF CALIFORNIA 



754. 



755. 



Pentachaeta alsinoides 



Monoptilon bellidiforme 



756. Desert Aster 



Monoptilon bellioides 



LESSINGIA 



Coast Ranges and perhaps 

 also Sierras. Pappus bris- 

 tles, very slender. 



Depressed desert annual, 

 with white flowers having 

 a central yellow disk like 

 a daisy. Receptacle slight- 

 ly convex, naked. Achenes 

 narrowly obovate, flat- 

 tened, pubescent. Pappus 

 a mere crown and a soli- 

 tary, short plumose bristle 

 Deserts southeastern Cali- 

 fornia. 



Similar, but the pappus con- 

 sists of 3-12 scales and 1- 

 12 slender bristles. Com- 

 mon in sand soil of the 

 southeastern deserts, 

 springing up after rains. 



Annual or biennial. Slender branches clothed when young with a more 

 or less deciduous wool. Heads rather small, five to twenty-five flowered* 

 Flowers yellow, purplish or white. Achenes wedge-shaped, more or less 

 flattened. Pappus of numerous unequal scabrous bristles which usually turn 

 reddish-brown. 



757. 



758. 



759. 



760. 



761. 



762. 



763. 



764. 



765. 



766. 



766a. 



767. 



Lessingia Germanorum 



Lessingia glandulifera 



Lessingia heterochromia 



Lessingia ramulosa and 



var. 

 Lessingia virgata 

 Lessingia leptoclada 

 Lessingia hololeuca 

 Lessingia adenophora 

 Lessingia nana 

 Lessingia albiflora 

 Lessingia Lemmonii 

 Heterotheca grandiflora 



Sand} r hills along the coast. 

 Flowers yellow. 



Conspicuously glandular and 

 heavy scented or without 

 odor or glands. Flowers 

 yellow. Middle California 

 southward. 



Dry soil, Ventura county. 

 Flowers pink. 



Flowers purplish, lilac to 

 white, achenes less flat- 

 tened, 4-5 nerved. Coast 

 Ranges and Interior Val- 

 lev. 



A coarse biennial or perennial from one to several feet high with the 

 leaves and stems clothed with long and rather soft spreading hairs. Medium 

 sized yellow flowers in a terminal spreading cluster. Ray-achenes without 

 pappus, Disk-achenes flattened, silky hirsute, with a double pappus, inner 

 ones copious and long, outer ones short and stout. 



A common weed along ditches and waste places in southern California, 

 extending to the Bay region as an immigrant. 



GOLDEN ASTER CHRYSOPSIS 



Rather low perennials with leafy stems and medium sized leaves. Flowers 

 with or without rays, yellow. Achenes flattened Pappus brownish and consisting 

 of numerous very slender bristles with or without a short row of small scales. 



