Nothocalais troximoides

Nothocalais troximoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Genus:	Nothocalais
Species:	N. troximoides
Binomial name
	Nothocalais troximoides; (A.Gray) Greene
Synonyms
	Microseris troximoides; Scorzonella troximoides

Nothocalais troximoides is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name sagebrush false dandelion. It is native to western North America, including British Columbia and the northwestern United States.^[1]

Description[edit]

Nothocalais troximoides is a perennial herb growing from a stout root and a thick caudex and producing a woolly flower stem up to about 25 cm (10 inches) tall. The leaves are located around the base of the stem and often have crinkled wavy edges, and sometimes a thin coat of small hairs and a thicker fringe of hairs on the leaf edge. Each linear leaf has a prominent mid-rib that is usually paler in color and they are up to 30 cm (12 inches) long. Each flower stem bears a single flower and the flower head is lined with green, sometimes purple-speckled, phyllaries and containing many yellow ray florets and no disc florets. The fruit is a cylindrical achene up to 1.3 cm (1⁄2 inch) long not including the large pappus of up to 30 silvery white bristles which may be an additional 2 cm (3⁄4 inch) in length.^[1]

Range and Habitat[edit]

Nothocalais troximoides is native to British Columbia and the northwestern United States in Washington, Oregon, northern California, Idaho, and Montana. It grows in sagebrush and other plateau and mountain habitat types, often in rocky soil.

Gallery[edit]

Showing flower and undulating leaf margins
Phyllaries

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b Hitchcock, C.L. and Cronquist, A. 2018. Flora of the Pacific Northwest, 2nd Edition, p. 599. University of Washington Press, Seattle.

External links[edit]

Media related to Nothocalais troximoides at Wikimedia Commons

Jepson Manual Treatment
USDA Plants Profile
Chambers, Kenton L. (2006). "Nothocalais troximoides". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). Vol. 19. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
Nothocalais troximoides in the CalPhotos photo database, University of California, Berkeley

[Hitchcock_and_Cronquist-1] Hitchcock, C.L. and Cronquist, A. 2018. Flora of the Pacific Northwest, 2nd Edition, p. 599. University of Washington Press, Seattle.

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