Steppe agoseris
Agoseris parviflora (Nutt.) D.Dietr.
Agoseris parviflora, known as Steppe agoseris, is a North American species in the Asteraceae family. It is native to the western United States, including regions such as the Great Basin and the Colorado River drainage. The plant is also found in parts of the Great Plains and the Sierra Nevada foothills. Its range spans from eastern Oregon and California to Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico, with isolated populations in western Kansas and South Dakota.
Description
Agoseris parviflora is a herb with rosette leaves that are narrowly obovate or linear-obovate, pinnatifid or entire, and may be ciliate or glabrous. The peduncle is glabrescent and woolly at the tip. The flower heads contain 30–100 yellow flowers with ligulate corollas. Involucral bracts are green or purplish and may be tomentose or glabrous. Achenes are narrowly ovoid to obovoid, with a beak 3.0–10.0 mm long. The pappus is 10.0–20.0 mm long. The species was published in 1847.
Other common names
Steppe agoseris
Distribution
Saskatchewan · Idaho · California · Utah · South Dakota · Nevada · Arizona · Oregon · Montana · Wyoming · New Mexico · Colorado
Synonyms
Agoseris leontodonAgoseris dens-leonisAgoseris leptocarpaAgoseris tomentosaAgoseris caudataAgoseris leontodon var. leontodonTroximon parviflorumAgoseris parvifloraMacrorhynchus glaucus var. laciniatusAgoseris glauca var. laciniataTroximon taraxacifoliumAgoseris taraxacoidesTroximon roseumTroximon glaucum var. parviflorumTroximon glaucum var. taraxacifolium
