Chaenactis cusickii

A. Gray

in A. Gray et al., Syn. Fl. N. Amer. ed. 2. 1(2): 452. 1886.

Common names: Morning brides Cusick’s pincushion
EndemicConservation concern
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 21. Treatment on page 410. Mentioned on page 400, 408, 409.

Plants 3.5–10(–15) cm; proximal indument grayish, sparsely arachnoid, glabrescent. Stems mostly 1–5; branches mainly proximal. Leaves basal (withering) and cauline (not notably smaller or sparser distally), 1–4 cm; largest blades ± oblanceolate, plane, ± succulent, not lobed (margins entire or distally ± crenate). Heads mostly 1–5(–12) per stem. Peduncles 0.5–2.5 cm, glabrescent distally (sparsely arachnoid early; bracts 1–2, leaflike, surpassing heads). Involucres ± hemispheric to campanulate. Phyllaries: longest 6–9(–10) mm (surpassed by florets); outer (uniformly) sparsely arachnoid to glabrescent in fruit, not stipitate-glandular (inner apically brownish-villosulous), apices usually erect, blunt, ± rigid. Florets: corollas (diurnal) white to pinkish, 3–7 mm (± equaling cypselae; anthers exserted); peripheral corollas ± erect, actinomorphic, scarcely enlarged. Cypselae 4–6 mm; pappi of (8–)10–14 scales in 2–3 gradually unequal series, longest scales 1.5–3.5 mm. 2n = 12.


Phenology: Flowering late Apr–Jun.
Habitat: Light-colored shrink-swell clay soils from volcanic ash and tuff, semiarid shrublands
Elevation: 700–1300(–1800) m

Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Chaenactis cusickii is known from Malheur County, Oregon, and adjacent Owyhee and Canyon counties, Idaho. Its relationship to other species is obscure.

Lower Taxa

None.
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James D. Morefield +
A. Gray +
Morning brides +  and Cusick’s pincushion +
Idaho +  and Oreg. +
700–1300(–1800) m +
Light-colored shrink-swell clay soils from volcanic ash and tuff, semiarid shrublands +
Flowering late Apr–Jun. +
in A. Gray et al., Syn. Fl. N. Amer. ed. +
moseley1994a +
Endemic +  and Conservation concern +
Undefined (tribe Undefined) subtribe Bahiinae +  and Undefined (tribe Undefined) subtribe Palafoxiinae +
Chaenactis cusickii +
Chaenactis sect. Chaenactis +
species +