Stemless Four-nerve-daisy - Hymenoxys acaulis
Other Names:
Tetraneuris acaulis
Native Species
Global Rank:
G5
State Rank:
S4S5
C-value:
4
Agency Status
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Caudex usually branched, often mat-forming. Stems simple, erect, scapose, 4–15 cm. Herbage sparsely to densely villous. Leaf blades linear-oblanceolate to oblong, entire, 1–5, cm long. Heads solitary; involucres 5–10 mm high; phyllaries subequal, lanceolate, densely villous, sometimes purple-tipped. Ray ligules 6–10 mm long. Disk corollas 3–5 mm long, puberulent. Achenes 2–4 mm long; pappus scales 5 to 8 (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Our plants are variety
acaulis. Lesica (2012) treats this species in the genus
Tetraneuris.