Family | ASTERACEAE |
Genus species | Laphamia lemmonii A.Gray trib. Heliantheae |
Bibliography | Notes Compositae: 101 (1880) |
Native Range | Arizona to New Mexico and ne. Mexico |
Primary Biome | Desert or Dry Shrubland |
Habitat | rocks |
Altitude | 600-2300m |
Description | densely lanate, glabrescent, leaves petiolate, ovate, dentate and partite, capitula discoid, 1-3, involucre campanulate, phyllaries linear to oblanceolate, acute |
Size | 5-17cm |
Color | yellow, yellowish purple |
Bloom | spring, summer |
Ca | - |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | sunny, dry, rock crevices, protection against winter wet alpine house, poor, drained soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1 month, 10-16°C cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Laphamia dissecta ssp. lemmonii (A.Gray) W.E.Niles Laphamia lemmonii var. pedata A.Gray Leptopharynx lemmonii (A.Gray) Rydb. Perityle lemmonii (A.Gray) J.F.Macbr. |
Territory | 7 Northern America 76 Southwestern U.S.A. (ARI Arizona) 77 South-Central U.S.A. (NWM New Mexico) 79 Mexico (MXE Mexico Northeast) |