SUNFLOWER FAMILY 481 
mostly greenish, 1-nerved or weakly 3-nerved; cauline leaves gradually more narrowed and 
reduced upward, the upper — and bearing on their often darkened tips a linear or filiform, 
acuminate, scarious appendage about 1. ong; stem thinly tomentose, often floccose; heads 
several, glomerate or in a co ie pee pee 2.5 cm. wide; pistillate sapere woolly from 
base upward to about the sickle 3-5 mm. high, the phyllaries on: mostly greenish base, a con- 
k brown or i oO i 
outer s mes wit t 
staminate involucres similar, the phyllaries with broader, soo obovate tips; achenes sparsely 
puberulous ; bristles of staminate pappus clavately dilated above 
pom neg A a r wet, mostly subalpine and alpine meadows and meadowy sites, Transition Zone to Boreal Zone; 
Colorado d Utah north to berks tana and Idaho; Cresco gow nie and in the Siered Svcs from 
Ce nett and Ormsby Count Nevada, south to Inyo and Free o Counties, California. Type locality: Battle 
Lake, Sierra Madre Mo uainints: "Catton County, Wyomin Be June Aus. 
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