Malacothrix
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Malacothrix(Greek words, meaning soft hair). Compositae. Annual and perennial herbs of W. N. Amer., one of which is listed; species probably 20: leafy-stemmed or scapose, usually with a radical cluster of lvs.: heads yellow, white or pinkish, peduncled, usually nodding in bud; receptacle naked or bristly; fls. all ligulate, hermaphrodite: achene short, terete, ribbed, with soft pappus-bristles. M. californica, DC. Annual, acaulescent, bearing single rather large light yellow heads on scapes 4-6 in. high: lvs. prominently woolly when young, pinnatifid, the lobes linear to almost filiform: involucre-bracts narrow-linear or subulate, in about 3 series. Sandy soils, Calif.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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