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Stephanomeria tenuifolia

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Stephanomeria tenuifolia

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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Stephanomeria
Species:
S. tenuifolia
Binomial name
Stephanomeria tenuifolia
(Raf.) H.M.Hall

Stephanomeria tenuifolia, the narrow-leaved wire-lettuce or narrow leaved stephanomeria, is a perennial plant in the family Asteraceae that grows in the Great Basin of the western United States.[1]: 60  It has five ray flowers that give it the appearance of being petals of a single flower of a plant in another plant family.[1]: 60 

Growth pattern

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It grows with much branching from 12 to 2 feet (0.15 to 0.61 m).[1]: 60 

Leaves and stems

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Leaves are threadlike.

Inflorescence and fruit

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The inflorescence is a head with 5 square-tipped, petal-like ray flowers and sepal-like phyllaries.[1]: 60 

Fruits are seeds attached to parachute-like pappi.[1]: 60 

Habitat and range

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Narrow leaved stephanomeria grows in the plains and dry slopes in sagebrush steppe, mixed conifer, and mountain shrub communities in the Great Basin.[1]: 60  In California it can be found in sagebrush scrub, Northern juniper woodland, yellow pine forest, red fir forest, lodgepole forest, and subalpine forest plant communities.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Great Basin Wildflowers, Laird R. Blackwell, 2006, Morris Book Publishing LLC., ISBN 0-7627-3805-7
  2. ^ Stephanomeria tenuifolia, Calflora