Stephanomeria tenuifolia
| Stephanomeria tenuifolia | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Stephanomeria |
| Species: | S. tenuifolia |
| Binomial name | |
| Stephanomeria tenuifolia Torrey) H.M. Hall | |
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]