spring lessingia

Lessingia tenuis

Member of genus Lessingia
sunflower family (family Asteraceae)
dicots (class Magnoliopsida)
yellow in flowering plants

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• 3–25 flowers
• corolla yellow with purple-brown band inside
• peripheral flowers may have pink or purplish corolla
• glands on stem and phyllaries
• cauline leaves generally glandless
• phyllary tips ± purple

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Chris’s observations: 1 (none are research grade)

Locations:

• Stevens Creek CP

Months:

• Jun.: 1

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Taxon info: iNaturalist – Calflora – CalPhotos – Jepson eFlora – FNA

Bay Area species: iNaturalist – Calflora