Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Eriophyllum croceum Greene, Erythea 3 : 124. 1895
A perennial, with a cespitose rootstock or short woody base; stems decumbent at the base,
2-4 dm. high; leaves oblanceolate or obovate, thin, densely white-tomentose beneath, loosely
floccose and glabrate above, coarsely serrate and rarely somewhat 3-lobed above the middle,
2-5 cm. long; heads solitary; peduncles 3-8 cm. long; involucre hemispheric, about S mm.
high and 12 mm. broad; bracts 12-14; ray-flowers as many; ligules golden-yellow, 8-10 mm.
long, 3-4 mm. wide; disk-corollas 4 mm. long; tube densely glandular-hirsule, fully as 1
the slightly glandular throat ; achenes 4 mm. long, 4-angled, striate, glabrous; squamellae about
8, reduced to short callous teeth.
Type locality: "Amador and Calaveras County hills," California. Distribution: Sierra Nevada region of California.
- bibliographic citation
- Per Axel Rydberg. 1915. (CARDUALES); CARDUACEAE; HELENIEAE, TAGETEAE. North American flora. vol 34(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
