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Pseudobahia heermannii

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Pseudobahia heermannii
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Pseudobahia
Species:
P. heermannii
Binomial name
Pseudobahia heermannii

Pseudobahia heermannii is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names foothill sunburst[1] and brittlestem.

It is endemic to California, where it occurs in grassland, chaparral, woodlands, and other habitat in the Sierra Nevada foothills and a section of the Central Coast Ranges.

It is an annual herb growing 10 to 30 centimeters tall with a pale green to reddish woolly or cobwebby stem. The leaves are divided into several narrow, toothed lobes. The inflorescence is a solitary flower head with a small, hard, cuplike involucre of about 8 fused phyllaries. From the involucre bloom about 8 golden ray florets around a center of hairless disc florets.

References

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  1. ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "​Pseudobahia heermannii​". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 15 October 2015.
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