Pyrrocoma apargioides

Pyrrocoma apargioides is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common name alpineflames.[1] It is native to the western United States from the Sierra Nevada of California east to Utah, where it grows in the forests and meadows of high mountains. It is a perennial herb growing from a taproot and producing one or more stems to 30 centimeters in length. The stems are decumbent or upright, reddish, and hairless to slightly woolly. Most of the leaves are located around the base. They are thick and leathery, lance-shaped with large sawteeth along the edges, often center-striped in white, and measure up to 10 centimeters long. The inflorescence is usually a single flower head lined with centimeter-long phyllaries which are reddish to green with red edges. The head has a center of yellow disc florets and a fringe of ray florets which are yellow, often splashed with red along the undersides, measuring up to 1.6 centimeters in length. The fruit is an achene which may be well over a centimeter in length including its pappus.

Pyrrocoma apargioides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Asterids
Order:
Asterales
Family:
Asteraceae
Tribe:
Astereae
Genus:
Pyrrocoma
Species:
P. apargioides
Binomial name
Pyrrocoma apargioides
Synonyms

Haplopappus apargioides

References
  1. "Pyrrocoma apargioides". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
Pyrrocoma apargioides plant: flowers & leaves
Golden aster seedheads and white stars of bracts


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