Eriophyllum lanatum

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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Family Compositae

The largest family of flowering plants , the Compositae (Asteraceae), comprising about 1,100 genera and more than 20,000 species and characterized by many small flowers arranged in a head looking like a single flower and subtended by an involucre of bracts. A head may consist of both ray flowers and disk flowers, as in the sunflower, of disk flowers only, as in the burdock, or of ray flowers only, as in the dandelion.

Genus Eriophyllum

Annuals , perennials , subshrubs , or shrubs , 1-200 cm. Stems erect or decumbent , usually branched (proximally, distally, or ± throughout). Leaves mostly cauline; mostly alternate (proximal sometimes opposite) ; petiolate or sessile; blades usually 1-2(-3) -pinnately lobed , ultimate margins toothed , serrate, or entire, faces usually densely to sparsely woolly (abaxial or both, adaxial sometimes glabrescent ). Heads radiate or discoid , borne singly or in loose to tight, corymbiform or compound-corymbiform arrays. Involucres campanulate to hemispheric , 3-12+ mm diam. Phyllaries persistent , 4-13(-15) in 1+ series (± erect in fruit, distinct or basally connate , lanceolate to oblanceolate , herbaceous or indurate , slightly to deeply concave , usually carinate , margins sometimes scarious , abaxial faces densely to sparsely woolly). Receptacles flat or convex to conic, smooth or pitted , glabrous , usually epaleate (with 1-6 hyaline paleae in E. ambiguum, obscurely setose in E. mohavense). Ray florets 0, or 4-13(-15), pistillate , fertile ; corollas yellow or white (sometimes with reddish veins in E. lanosum). Disc florets (3-) 10-300, bisexual , fertile; corollas yellow, tubes shorter than or about equaling funnelform throats , lobes 5, deltate. Cypselae linear-clavate to prismatic , flattened or 3-angled in rays, 4(-5) -angled in discs, hairy or glabrous; pappi 0, or persistent, of 6-12+ (distinct) erose to laciniate or aristate scales (in 1-2 similar or contrasting series), or ± coroniform . x = 8.

Species 13: w North America, nw Mexico.

Eriophyllum encompasses taxa that occur in seashore, chaparral , grassland, desert, forest , and alpine communities. Their disparateness encouraged taxonomic multiplication. Between 1890 and 1937, about 157 designations under the genus existed (L. Constance 1937). Constance reduced that taxonomic thicket to six annual and five perennial species; the perennial species E. lanatum consisted of ten varieties. Base diploid chromosome numbers for Eriophyllum (in the sense of Constance) species are x = 4, 5, and 7 for the annuals, and x = 8, 15, and 19 for the perennials (S. Carlquist 1956; J. S. Mooring 1997, 2001, 2002). Possibly, x = 15 and x = 19 represent paleopolyploidy. Only E. mohavense remains uncounted. B . G. Baldwin (1999) linked Mooring's (1997) report of n = 19 in E. nevinii to chromosomal, morphologic, and rDNA evidence, and erected the genus Constancea on that species. Eriophyllum (in the sense of Constance) seems most closely related to the annuals Pseudobahia (x = 3, 4, 8) and Syntrichopappus (x = 6, 7). Eriophyllum (in the sense of Baldwin), Pseudobahia, and Syntrichopappus constitute a clade, and nomenclatural changes are necessary for a monophyletic classification (Baldwin and B. L. Wessa 2000; Baldwin et al. 2002). Mooring (1997) hypothesized a descending dysploidy phylogeny in Eriophyllum (in the sense of Constance) from E. nevinii. Baldwin et al. (2002, p. 174) stated that E. nevinii "is an evolutionary outlier (although probably not ancestral) to" Eriophyllum in the sense of Constance.Natural intertaxon hybrids have been reported for the perennial species (L. Constance 1937; J. S. Mooring 1994) but not for the annuals. Experimental hybridizations have produced sterile hybrids between the annual E. congdonii and the perennial E. lanatum. Experimental crosses among seven of the annual species produced fertile hybrids between two morphologically similar species; the other combinations either failed or produced sterile hybrids (Mooring 2002).D. P. Tibor (2001) cited nine taxa of Eriophyllum as rare or endangered : the perennials E. confertiflorum var. tanacetiflorum, E. jepsonii, E. latilobum, E. (Constancea) nevinii, and E. lanatum vars. hallii and obovatum, and the annuals E. congdonii, E. mohavense, and E. nubigenum.[1]

Physical Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,770 meters (0 to 9,088 feet).[2]

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Annual , Perennial

Growth

Culture: Space 12-15" apart.

Soil: Minimum pH: 6.1 • Maximum pH: 7.8

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b. (map)

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Actinella lanata Pursh

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Data Providers: CONABIO, Govaerts World Compositae Checklist A-G, IPNI, Tropicos, LCR Editor. GCC LSID: urn :lsid:compositae.org:names:1C730207-83B9-4A38-9533-4619FC9BD884

Last scrutiny: 13-Aug-09

Similar Species

Members of the genus Eriophyllum

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 32 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

E. ambiguum (Beautiful Woolly Sunflower) · E. ambiguum var. ambiguum (Beautiful Woolly Sunflower) · E. ambiguum var. paleaceum (Beautiful Woolly Sunflower) · E. confertiflorum (Golden-Yarrow) · E. confertiflorum (DC.) Gray var. confertiflorum (DC.) Gray (Golden-Yarrow) · E. confertiflorum var. confertiflorum (Golden-Yarrow) · E. confertiflorum var. tanacetiflorum (Golden-Yarrow) · E. congdonii (Congdon's Eriophyllum) · E. jepsonii (Jepson Woolly-Sunflower) · E. lanatum (Common Woolly Sunflower) · E. lanatum (Pursh) Forb. var. integrifolium (Hook.) Smiley (Common Woolly Sunflower) · E. lanatum (Pursh) Forb. var. leucophyllum (DC.) W. R. Carter (Common Woolly Sunflower) · E. lanatum var. achillaeoides (Common Woolly Sunflower) · E. lanatum var. aphanactis (Common Woolly Sunflower) · E. lanatum var. arachnoideum (Common Woolly Sunflower) · E. lanatum var. croceum (Common Woolly Sunflower) · E. lanatum var. cuneatum (Common Woolly Sunflower) · E. lanatum var. grandiflorum (Common Woolly Sunflower) · E. lanatum var. hallii (Hall's Woolly Sunflower) · E. lanatum var. integrifolium (Common Woolly Sunflower) · E. lanatum var. lanatum (Common Woolly Sunflower) · E. lanatum var. lanceolatum (Common Woolly Sunflower) · E. lanatum var. leucophyllum (Common Woolly Sunflower) · E. lanatum var. obovatum (Common Woolly Sunflower) · E. lanatum 'Pointe' (Oregon Sunshine) · E. latilobum (San Mateo Woolly Sunflower) · E. mohavense (Barstow Wooly-Sunflower) · E. multicaule (Many-Stem Woolly-Sunflower) · E. nevinii (Nevin's Woolly Sunflower) · E. nubigenum (Yosemite Woolly Sunflower) · E. pringlei (Pringle's Eriophyllum) · E. stoechadifolium (Seaside Woolly Sunflower)

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Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.
• "Eriophyllum lanatum". in Flora of North America Vol. 21 Page 352, 353, 354, 357, 361, 362. Published by Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org.
• GCC: Global Compositae Checklist. Release date: November 18, 2009
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed November 25, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 13 providers.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (April 27, 2008)

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 25, 2007:

• Berkeley Natural History Museums, University and Jepson Herbaria DiGIR provider
• Bundesamt für Naturschutz / Zentralstelle für Phytodiversität Deutschland, Bundesamt fuer Naturschutz / Zentralstelle fuer Phytodiversitaet Deutschland
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• Oregon State University, Vascular Plant Collection
• School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, The Deaver Herbarium, Northern Arizona University
• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database
• University of Washington Burke Museum, Vascular Plant Collection - University of Washington Herbarium
• Utah State University, USU-UTC Specimen Database
• Utah Valley State College
• , Utah Valley State College Herbarium

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2658530
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Ast-18506
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13749080
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:204863-1
• GRIN Nomen Number: 454786
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 37334
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDAST3N050
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: ERLAT ERLA
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 38349

Footnotes

1. Dale E. Johnson, John S. Mooring "Eriophyllum". in Flora of North America Vol. 21 Page 255, 335, 336, 352, 353, 354, 363, 380. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Mean = 989.620 meters (3,246.785 feet), Standard Deviation = 618.360 based on 1,338 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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