Petradoria pumila

Family: Asteraceae
Common Name: rock goldenrod
Symbol: PEPU7
Description: Possible to confuse with Stenotus armeroides. PEPU7 has many small flowers, STAR10 has a few larger heads. General: Perennial, 0.8-25 cm tall; stems 1-20, erect, slender, glabrous or minutely scabrous, often resinous; caudex woody, branched; tap-rooted. Leaves: Basal and cauline, alternate, oblanceolate to linear-oblanceolate, 2-12 cm long, 1-12 mm wide, gradually reduced upwards, leathery, faintly to conspicuously gland-dotted, resinous, margins minutely scabrous; basal and lower cauline blades petiolate, upper cauline blades sessile. Flowers: Heads solitary or few, arranged in corymb-like arrays; involucre campanulate, 3.5-5 mm long, and about as wide; phyllaries 12-16 in mostly 2 series; disk flowers only, 30-40, yellow to pale yellow; flowers June-October. Fruits: Achene, 4-5 mm long, glabrous, 6-9 veined; pappus of 30- 60 tan, minutely barbed bristles. Ecology: Dry, rocky, open habitats, slopes, canyons; 900-3000 m (3000-10000 ft)