Lemmon's lessingia, more...Lemmon's lessingia, Lemmon's lessingia, valley lessingia
[Lessingia germanorum var. glandulifera (A. Gray) J.T. Howell, moreLessingia germanorum var. lemmonii (A. Gray) J. T. Howell, Lessingia germanorum var. ramulosissima (A. Nels.) J.T. Howell, Lessingia lemmonii A. Gray, Lessingia lemmonii var. lemmonii , Lessingia lemmonii var. ramulosissima (A.Nelson) Ferris]
Plants 5-40 cm. Stems erect, tan, glabrous or villous to woolly. Leaves: basal withering before flowering; cauline margins ± entire, faces sessile-glandular, abaxial glabrous or villous to woolly. Heads borne singly at ends of branchlets. Involucres obconic to cylindric, 4-7 mm. Phyllaries green, glabrous or villous to tomentose, gland-dotted; inner scarious. Disc florets 10-30; corollas yellow (tubes without brown-purple band inside); style-branch appendages lanceolate, 0.3-1.3 mm. Pappi white to tan, equaling or longer than cypselae.