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Photo shot at Ten Mile Dunes Preserve.
Coast Gumplant, (Grindelia stricta), is a member of ASTERACEAE, the Sunflower Family, and this particular specimen could very well be an intergrade between the Puget Sound (aka Coast) and San Francisco Gumplant -
From the Jepson Manual Online:
Perennial or subshrub 2�15 dm, prostrate to erect, green to deep purplish red, glabrous to tomentose
Leaf 1�15 cm, oblong to lanceolate, � fleshy, green or red-veined
Inflorescence: heads 1驜any, generally not subtended by bracts; involucres 10�55 mm diam, hemispheric;
phyllaries 4�6 series, spreading to slightly recurved
Ray flowers generally 20�60; ligules 12�25 mm
Disk flowers many; corolla throat abruptly wider than tube
Fruit 3.5�7 mm, whitish or gray- to red-brown, ridged, top knobby; pappus awns 2�6, becoming reflexed to coiled, > 0.3 mm wide, V-shaped in X -section, minutely serrate
Ecology: Tidal flats, marshes, dunes, seabluffs
Elevation: < 200 m.
Bioregional distribution: North Coast, Central Coast, South Coast, Channel Islands
Distribution outside California: to Alaska
Varieties intergrade. |
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