Enceliopsis nudicaulis

Enceliopsis nudicaulis

var. corrugata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Tribe:	Heliantheae
Genus:	Enceliopsis
Species:	E. nudicaulis
Binomial name
*Enceliopsis nudicaulis* (A.Gray) A.Nelson

Enceliopsis nudicaulis is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common name nakedstem sunray, or naked-stemmed daisy.

Distribution

It is native to the Southwestern United States, including the Inyo Mountains-White Mountains and sky islands the Mojave Desert in California. It grows in desert, plateau, and montane habitats.

Description

Enceliopsis nudicaulis is a perennial herb growing up to 40 centimeters tall from a woody caudex fringed with gray-green hairy leaves. The leaves are oval in shape and up to 6 centimeters long and wide.

The inflorescence is a solitary flower head atop a tall, erect peduncle. The flower head has a base made up of three layers of densely woolly, pointed phyllaries. It has a fringe of approximately 21 yellow ray florets each 2 to 4 centimeters long. The fruit is a hairy achene about a centimeter in length.

Varieties

There are two varieties of this species:

Enceliopsis nudicaulis var. corrugata, the Ash Meadows sunray, the rarer one which is probably endemic to Nevada in the vicinity of Ash Meadows in the Amargosa Desert and is federally listed as a threatened species.^[1]
Enceliopsis nudicaulis var. nudicaulis ^[2]

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