Stephanomeria tenuifolia
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| Species: | S. tenuifolia
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| Stephanomeria tenuifolia Torrey) H.M. Hall
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Stephanomeria tenuifolia, the narrow-leaved wire-lettuce or narrow leaved stephanomeria, is a perennial plant in the sunflower 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
It grows with much branching from 1⁄2 to 2 feet (0.15 to 0.61 m).[1]: 60
Leaves and stems
Leaves are threadlike.
Inflorescence and fruit
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
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]