Stephanomeria tenuifolia

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

Stephanomeria tenuifolia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Asterids
Order:
Asterales
Family:
Asteraceae
Tribe:
Cichorieae
Subtribe:
Microseridinae
Genus:
Stephanomeria
Species:
S. tenuifolia
Binomial name
Stephanomeria tenuifolia
Torrey) H.M. Hall

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]

References
  1. Great Basin Wildflowers, Laird R. Blackwell, 2006, Morris Book Publishing LLC., ISBN 0-7627-3805-7
  2. Stephanomeria tenuifolia, Calflora
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