Townsendia condensata

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Townsendia condensata
Townsendiacondensata-anomala.jpg
var. anomala
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Astereae
Subtribe:
Genus: Townsendia
Species:
T. condensata
Binomial name
Townsendia condensata

Townsendia condensata is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common names cushion Townsend daisy[1] and cushion townsendia. It is native to North America where it is known from many scattered occurrences in the mountains of the western United States and Alberta in Canada. It is mainly limited to the alpine climates of high mountain peaks, where it grows in meadows, tundra, and barren, rocky talus.[2] It grows alongside other alpine plants such as .[2]

This is a petite biennial or perennial herb taking a clumped form just a few centimeters tall, its herbage growing on a caudex and taproot unit. The leaves are 1 or 1.5 centimeters long, rounded, and coated in woolly hairs. The inflorescence is generally a solitary flower head 1 to 3 centimeters wide with rough-haired, lance-shaped phyllaries. The head contains many yellow disc florets and many white, pinkish, or purplish ray florets each measuring up to 16 millimeters in length. The fruit is a hairy achene tipped with a deciduous pappus of bristles.

One variety of this species, var. anomala, the North Fork Easter-daisy, is endemic to the Absaroka Mountains of Wyoming, mostly in the drainage of the North Fork of the Shoshone River.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ "Townsendia condensata". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b US Forest Service Fire Ecology
  3. ^ Marriott, H. and J. C. Lyman. Townsendia condensata var. anomala: A Technical Conservation Assessment. USDA Forest Service May 9, 2006.

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