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the inner much shorter ; rays 5-9, 1-2 cm. long ; achenes about 1 cm. long, oo or very sparsely 
pubescent ; pappus a variously toothed or oe crown 1.5 mm. or less high, not awn ge 
Grassy hills and cs Le gee woods, d Transition Zone; southern Sierra Nevada in Tular nty, Cali- 
fornia, and the mountains of southern cud, Tra aed adjacent re California. Type aceite: + Soe on 
he western side of ga Cordillerss of California” between Warner’s ‘Ranch and San sabel, San Diego County, 
California. May—Aug 
2. Wyethia bolanderi (A. Gray) W. A. Weber. Bolander’s Wyethia. Fig. 5131. 
Balsamorhiza bolanderi A. Aer Proc. Amer. Acad. 7: 356. 1868. 
W yethia bolanderi W. A er, Amer. Midl, Nat. 35: 419. 1946. 
Perennial, 20-30 cm. sce essentially glabrous way ite glutinous, the stem stoutish, 2-3- 
a bearing at base a few scales about 2.5 cm. long. Basal and ste em-lea et s similar, alternate, 
ovate to suborbicular, Me 12 cm. lo ong and “ie as ats rounded to apiculate, at base rounded t 
or Ae te and unequal, ret ey roe feather- veined and strongly vine. the lower pair 
of veins conspicuous, thus appear stat: triplinerved ; head solitary, short-peduncled ; involucre 
series ; er phyllaries 4-6, ae e to ovate or oblong, acute or apiculate, coriaceous, reticu- 
ie sc ie eae feat. like, thinly be ay —2.5 cm. long, 5-12 mm. wide; “wee Rey iaeics linear- 
lanceolate, acuminate, pilose, about 1.5 cm. long; rays 7-12, yellow long; e€ 
glabrous, bro oniak about 7.5 mm. long, crowned with as analiee: sometimes 4- toothed ring, those 
of the ra a obeoisipesteer Seah of | the disk clavate-quadrangular 
Mos 6 gro chaparral, lower Arid Transition Zone; foothills of the Sierra Nevada, California, from 
Butte County to 1 ikatiocal County. Pye locality: ers, Placer County. March—May. 
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5130. Wyethia ovata 
mee Wyethia bolanderi 
5132. Wyethia reticulata 
