Raillardella pringlei

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Raillardella pringlei
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Status TNC G2.svg
Imperiled  (NatureServe)
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Raillardella
Species:
R. pringlei
Binomial name
Raillardella pringlei

Raillardella pringlei is an uncommon species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name showy raillardella. [1]

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Description

Raillardella pringlei is a rhizomatous perennial herb growing in a clump of rosetted basal leaves. The leaves are linear to lance-shaped with smooth or faintly toothed edges, up to 15 centimeters long, and mostly hairless. Leaves also appear on the inflorescence in opposite pairs on a hairy-glandular stalk. The plant produces an inflorescence generally 25 centimeters to half a meter tall consisting of a solitary flower head or an array of up to three heads. The head is bell-shaped, sometimes widely so. It contains many orange to red-orange disc florets each about a centimeter long, and a fringe of several orange or reddish ray florets each up to 2 centimeters in length. The floral bract is densely covered with glandular hairs. The fruit is a long, narrow achene which may be 2 centimeters in length including its pappus of plumelike bristles. [2]

Range and Habitat

Raillardella pringlei is endemic to the southern Klamath Ranges of northern California, where it grows in moist forest habitat on serpentine soils. [2]

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References

  1. USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Raillardella pringlei". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
  2. 1 2 "The Jepson Herbarium".