Thamophylla pentachaeta
Family: Asteraceae
Plant Description: Perennial to 15 cm high with leaves pinnately divided into segments less than 1 mm wide, deeply lobed or threadlike rather stiff to touch, aromatic, opposite. Heads 1-1.8 cm wide, solitary. Disks and rays yellow to yellow-orange.
Plant Trivia:
Field Identification: Small bristly aromatic plant with yellow ray and disk flowers. These characteristics separate it from Tiny Tim, T. tenuiloba.
Occurrence: Frequent on caliche or calcareous sand in openings or along ravines, bluffs, and roads.
Bloom Period: March-December
Plant Use:
Key to species of Thymnophylla:
- Leaves opposite, margins of outer phyllaries free for 1/2 their length……………………………………………………………………………………….T. pentachaeta
Leaves alternate, margins of outer phyllaries united up to short deltoid tips………………………………………………………………………………………………………………T. tenuiloba
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