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Sierra Lessingia
Lessingia leptoclada
  
1 Nurseries Carry This Plant

About Sierra Lessingia (Lessingia leptoclada) 1 Nurseries Carry This Plant Lessingia leptoclada is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common name Sierra lessingia. It is endemic to the Sierra Nevada of California, where it is known from several types of local habitat. This is a slender annual herb growing erect and varying in size from just a few centimeters to nearly a meter tall, with long, spreading branches. It is very hairy and often hairy or woolly in texture. The upper leaves are up to 5 centimeters long, narrow and sometimes toothed or lobed; the lower leaves are longer and wither early. The flower heads appear singly or in small clusters. Each head is lined with woolly phyllaries. The head is discoid, containing no ray florets but many funnel-shaped pinkish, lavender, or light bluish-purple disc florets with large lobes. The fruit is an achene with a whitish pappus of bristles.
Plant Description
Plant Type
Plant Type
Annual herb

Size
Size
3.3 ft tall

Flower Color
Flower Color
Pink

Wildlife Supported
 


 
Butterflies & moths hosted ( 4 likely * ) SHOW ALL
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Chlosyne gabbii Image
Gabb's Checkerspot Chlosyne gabbiiChlosyne gabbii
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White-lined Sphinx Hyles lineataHyles lineata
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Argyrotaenia franciscana Image
Orange Tortrix Moth Argyrotaenia franciscanaArgyrotaenia franciscana
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Cucullia incresaCucullia incresa

Landscaping Information
Sun
Sun
Full Sun

Nurseries
Nurseries
Carried by 1

Sunset Zones
Sunset Zones?
7*, 8, 9*, 14*, 15*, 16*, 17*, 18*, 19*, 20*, 21*, 22*, 23*, 24*

Natural Setting
Site Type
Site Type
Open slopes and valleys

Climate
Climate
Annual Precipitation: 6.2" - 63.2", Summer Precipitation: 0.23" - 2.20", Coldest Month: 21.9" - 50.5", Hottest Month: 45.5" - 77.8", Humidity: 1.04" - 29.15", Elevation: 251" - 11310"

Alternative Names
Common Names: Sierra Vinegarweed


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Sources include: Wikipedia. All text shown in the "About" section of these pages is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Plant observation data provided by the participants of the California Consortia of Herbaria, Sunset information provided by Jepson Flora Project. Propogation from seed information provided by the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden from "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants" by Dara E. Emery. Sources of plant photos include CalPhotos, Wikimedia Commons, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. Other general sources of information include Calflora, CNPS Manual of Vegetation Online, Jepson Flora Project, Las Pilitas, Theodore Payne, Tree of Life, The Xerces Society, and information provided by CNPS volunteer editors, with special thanks to Don Rideout. Climate data used in creation of plant range maps is from PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University, using 30 year (1981-2010) annual "normals" at an 800 meter spatial resolution.

Links:   Jepson eFlora Taxon Page  CalPhotos  Wikipedia  Calflora


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