SUNFLOWER FAMILY 371 
Key To VARIETIES 
Plant 25 cm. high or usually less; leaves very crowded, the internodes of the middle part * the —  Seeraning 
3 mm. long or usually less; chiefly i in the Klamath region. r. confint. 
Plant eau over 25 cm. high; leaves less crowded, the internodes often averaging more t wae " mm. 
Stem eipbrows to more or less strigose or hirsute-pubescent with appressed hairs, or the hairs near te base of 
stem spreading; leaves glabrous to variously hairy 
Hind: ego to narrowly oblong, the larger — mostly over 1.5 mm. wide or if occasionally less than 
.5 mm. wide then flat and without subconical hai 
Leaves did often also the stem more or ss ‘aes subtouical hairs often present; chiefly west of 
the Sierra Nevada and sited of San mien var. foli iosus. 
Leaves and stem subglabrous only s y strigose; year gene hairs _— “ag soe Bi a of San 
Francisco and a sang ational ad northward to Ore r, har’ 
Leaves suneae filiform or narrowly linear, 1.5 mm. wide or less, pail ‘Gthes ‘gaeaa ot some 0 
nal hairs enlarged toward the base and subconical; Fresno and Monterey: Pacaties a 
tenophyllus. 
Stem = leaves deauits and finely acticin or hirtellous with distinctly spreading hai 
s glabro ap osha bubtr ules i ith fine curly hairs; sand dunes near the seacoast in Santa Barbara 
and San s Obisp tie r. blochmaniae. 
pee more or Kyi bey kee hoi lous with short, generally straight paren ee and dry moun- 
tains of the interior of southern California, extending into the Sierra Neva “ip 
var. covi 
Erigeron foliosus var. hartwégii (Greene) Jepson, Man. Fl. Pl. Calif. ee 1925. (Erigeron Lenten 
Penne i age: Sr 2hr<tBos; + blasdalei Gresde! op. cit. 124; E. mendocinus Greene, progr eg ot. Obs; 2: 9. 
nts 2.5-5(8 3) dm. ai ; herbage subglabrous Dok sparsely strigose; i s 1-4 flat, aaa 
pas fe cal hairs; rays averaging ire er and more conspicuous than in some ger se gh cad a 
pe toting he Hoke Sg ad teeasionalty as far orth as Linn Co unty, south to Yosemite National Park and San Fra 
o, California. Type locality: California. 
x mca foliosus var. st carey rier? (Nutt.) A. sys 2 = Calif. a 330. 1876. (Erigeron rooms “werd 
Nutt. Journ. Acad. Phila. II. 1: 176. 1847; A ae issimus Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am +235. 
1884; E. ale omg Greene, hen 3: 25 E. pine hall it idler, Bull Torrey Club 25: 628. wry E. 
setchellit Jepso Tae nd phen Calif. 568. iso1; "E, fragilis Greene, Bull. S. Calif. Acad. 1: 39. 1902.) Plants 
generally tall a nas m less than 4 dm ; leaves as noted in the key, the surfaces commonly sub- 
other varie ieties; ac plead ig airy. Fresno ‘aa a Counties to ees Diego County, California. Type locality: 
nea onterey, 
Erigeron Gisckar' var. blochmaniae (Greene) H. M. Hall, Univ. Calif. Pub. Bot. 3: 91. 1907. (Erigeron 
pigs and Greene, faba 5: Bist 1896.) Tall coarse plants; herbage Peng and soap P vane Ror sia ae — 
short, loose, crinkled hairs; leav 3.5 m ide; heads averaging lar an in rietie: volucr 
more or less pian cahetlen ‘e * nistalions: inflorescence usually predced 78 ponieee : Saber a “A ae ne are ea at 
dunes in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties, California. Type locality: northern Santa Barbara County. 
rt; 8 nely and usually adi 
stem spreading or rere eaacre Y genataity hirtellous or in more northern plonte pero slandular; aahanes 
sparsely short-hairy. ae e foothills and, = t moderate elevations in the.) mountain ranges of souther n Cal ifornia, 
oe, cache Log Sierra Nevada as far as the vicinity of Lake Tahoe, 3 forms Gaaaiy raapeathing 
E brewer 
Erigeron foliosus var. confinis (Howell) Jepson, Man. Bo Calif. amy 1925. (Erigeron confinis How- 
ell, Eryt rgero 3: 35. 1895.) Low plants i numerous bc sy de erect or suberect stems and very crowded, linear- 
pie Be to linear-oblanceolate leaves 0.5-2.5 mm. wide and ese than 4 cm: long; gs rbage varying from subglabrous 
(in forms i ricoh hartwegii) to us cally 3 mo = = strigose- ig wa gt a coarsely spreading- 
hirsute; heads solita r few vi rays often recat adh ‘itt  igee in f the other varieties; gn se 
sparsely hairy. Siskiyou reat of northwestern California rk sonihiwest wv Gee catia, and also extending northward 
ye = be + Mien ‘Jefferson, Linn County, Oregon. Type locality: Siskiyou Sintiahas ‘scar Waldo, Josephine County, 
56. Erigeron petréphilus Greene. Rock Daisy. Fig. 5637. 
Erigeron ——— Greene, Pittonia 1: 218. 1888. 
Perennial with a taproot and root-crown ; s 10-35 cm. high, moderately to scat 
spreading-villous or i llesultie. often oa bearish or ee paneer ies the hairs averaging shorter and 
ofte r than those of EF. mis numerous, longer than the internodes, all aly 
alike: ‘withage a basal tuft, only pee eg Yedited upward, money roadly linear or narrowly 
oblanceolate, the larger ones most! cm. long and 2-5 mm. wide, more or less hairy like the 
st i 
h a an n S 
deve eloped, A like, green area near the tip; pistillate flowers wanting ; coma ey 2 4. 
mm. long plore to more often a ist or reddish; style-appendages o) obtuse or acutish, .2 mi 
ong; pap 20 white or sometimes sor co bristles, Deaeiaily with a few sheet 
= rsely hairy. 
Rocky places, usually at m ate elevations in the teiagiteie. — Sonoran and Transition Zones; north- 
ern Califone ae ee se oon and the "‘Colitornia Coast Ranges as pegs uth as Monterey County. Type 
jaca 3 “California Coast Range, from near Berkeley’; perhaps from Wildcat Creek, Contra Costa County. 
uly. 
57. Erigeron miser A. Gray. Starved Daisy. Fig. 5638. 
Erigeron miser A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 13: 272. 1878. 
Perennial with a stout taproot and root-crown or short caudex ; stems numerous, ascen nding, 
mostly 5-15(25) cm _ long; herbage more or less densely cob eet 0 with long white hairs, 
sometimes d obscurely glandular. Leaves numerous, oblanceolate or broadly linear, 
all ly alike, wi sal tuft, only slightly reduced upward, the lowe times with 
a 
more evident distinction into blade and petiole than the others, the st ones mostly 1-2 cm. long 
and 2-3 mm. wide; heads solitary or few, the disk 7-14 mm . wide ; involucre 4-6 mm. high, glandu- 
