104 COMPOSITAE 
8. Wyethia mollis A. Gray. Mountain Mule-ears. Fig. 5137. 
Wyethia mollis A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 6: 544, 1865. 
Stout perennial from a thick vertical caudex, densely and somewhat floccosely SS 
tomentose throughout at he when young, in age greener poe somewhat glabrescent; s imple, 
high. Basal leaves on thick naked petioles 4-20 c oe their blades Sage ra cr 
ovate, 9-5 ng, acute’or obtuse, at base cuneate to rae es ate, firm, entire, feather-veined 
and reticulate stem: leaves few, much smaller, elliptic, oblong, or i short- petioled ; heads 2-4, 
solitary at ap stem and in the upper axils, peduncled, medium-sized ; involucre campanulate. 
oO ac - 
re ube 5: 
cent above, 8-11 m m. long ; pappus a short, lacerate, pubescent crown and usually also 2-4 slender, 
unequal, linear- ‘poser rosea a ; pon ong or less, sometimes reduced to short teeth or wanting. 
Open ridges and dry woods, sition and Canadian Zones; southern oo in Klamath and Lake 
Counties gine 5 through pill meas Moa California ora rs Sierra Nevada and adjac i Meseas to Fresno County, 
California. Type onl Mono Lake and summit of Sonora Pass in the Sierra ak California. May—Aug. 
Woolly Dwarf Sunflower 
9. Wyethia helianthoides Nutt. White-rayed Wyethia or Mule-ears. Fig. 5138. 
W yethia helianthoides Nutt. ee Acad. Phila. 7: 40. pl. 5. 1834. 
Perennial, from a thick, fusiform or Pb shaped caudex and root; stems ascending, 15-40 
marty s tipitate-glandular especially ve and loosely spreading-pilose, stout, leafy. Basal 
ais on petioles 3.5-5 cm. long, a, pas margined above, the blades elliptic to oblong or oval, 
cm. long, 3.9 cm. wide, obtuse to — at fee cuneate to subcordate, thinnish, i ty 
pilose or hirsute especially toward margin, entire or slightly serrate, often wavy-margined ; stem 
leaves much smaller, about 7-12, elliptic i lanceolate or lance-ovate, narrowed into a ary usu ually 
Neeed 6 Pu neticle. not at ll clasping, hae i aa, on surface loosely pilose or subglabrous, entire; 
s 1(-4), sho rt-pedunc = haw cm. EES eg about 4-seriate, usually subequal, 1.8-2. 
ma Riel emispheric, som es istacoons: Denice ps numerous, toma to lance-ovate, 
acum minate, densely  Diloseciiate, ee ihe atin a rays about 16-20, “sulphur yellow 
am or white m. lon 5 di sk-flowers yellow; receptacular bracts omy lar and ciliate 
Wet > ere and meadows, Arid Transition and Canadian Zones; eastern Oregon to southwestern Mon- 
tana, northern Wyoming, and norther n Nevada. Fone locality: ‘‘Camas Plain, Flathead River.” Collected by 
Wyeth, probably in eastern Idaho. pote July. 
a “ereues scipcaatencys (DC.) Nutt. Narrow-leaved Mule-ears. Fig. 5139. 
th . Fl. Bor. Amer. 1: 313. 1834. Not Pursh, 1814. 
Alarconia ? pines oe ers = Ange 1836. 
Helanthons stage te tad op. c 
Tr rans. pee Phil. Soc. IT. 7: 352. 1840. 
Wy ethia r bus ta. ae 
W yethia agape a var. cpeainsti Jepson, Man. FI. Pl. Calif. 1080. 1925. 
Perennial herb from a eo or a vertical caudex, pilose or hirsute and somewhat 
resinous ; stems ascending, 1.5-3 dm. high, usually aan: iaigice — to densely pilose or 
sed abo 
petioles 2-11 cm. long (often margined above), the blades 1 rebavk ‘atconee te to "oblong 
long, 1-8 cm. wide, acuminate, long-cuneate at base, papery, entire to serrate, sparsely. ‘to densely 
hirsute or hirsutulous on both sides with spreading to subappressed hairs ; em-leaves 
1 edu 
petioled or sessile, not clasping ; heads 1(-4), about 5-9 cm. wide ; involu road, 1. . high, 
i be s ceola 
ovate or obovate, acu 
subglabrous dorsally ; rays 10-18, 1.5-3.5 cm. long ; achenes puberulous at apex, about 8 mm. long; 
pappus a oe -denticulate = ‘lacerate crown of 's squa pape! 2 mm. long or less and 1-4 slender 
peep lou -_— =. ong or less, sometimes reduced to teeth. 
yam d oj — en Upper Sonoran = Transition — southern bp hoy tsa 
(Klickitat County) — gietat— om ope 9 ei te County, California, and sparingly in the Sierr: 
evada. ae ocality: Monterey, Califor Bs 3 th cted tad ouglas. April—Aug. 
Wye ustifolia var. folidsa (Congdon) H. Hall, eee felt. Pu ab. Bot. 4: 207. ger (W yethia 
tases ‘he (poatecliny bis sf 186. Heed Pageroar 4-5 “Mt dm. high; upper leaves ovate to lanceolat ith clasping 
heads 1-4, usually smaller phyllaries mostly la nee-linear or lemeaclate: Mainly in northern | California oe 
acent Oregon wns a 3 in rie Sierra erm fom Shasta oe to Fresno County and in the North Coast 
Ranges in in a and Mendocino Counties, California. Type | : “wooded slopes of the ee ranging 
om 3,000 to 8,000 ft.”’ 
. Not pelhent differentiated from W. angustifolia var. angustifolia because of existing intermediate forms but 
recognizable by the characters outlined above. 
11. Wyethia longicatlis A. Gray. Humboldt Wyethia. Fig. 5140. 
Wyethia longicaulis A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 19: 4. 1883. 
Perennial herb, essentially g proline throughout except sometimes on involucre, resinous and 
yet stem es essentially s simple, ascending, about 4 dm. high. Lower leaves oblanceolate, about 
20 cm. long (including the ceeroisis margined cots 3 cm. wide, obtuse, long-cuneate at base, 
