Luina hypoleuca - Silverback luina
Family: Aster
LUINA
Perennial herb from branched caudex. Stem: slender, gray-tomentose. Leaf: cauline, alternate, lanceolate to ovate, entire or toothed. Inflorescence: heads discoid, generally in ± flat-topped clusters; involucre obconic; phyllaries in 1–2 equal series; receptacle flat or convex, epaleate. Disk flower: generally 11–23; corolla white to cream [yellow], tube > throat; anther base short-tailed, tip narrowly lanceolate; style branches rounded-truncate. Fruit: ± cylindric; pappus of many bristles in 1–2 series.
2 species: northwestern North America. (Anagram of Inula) [Pelser et al. 2007 Taxon 56:1077–1104; Strother 2006 FNANM 20:627–628] [Jepson]
Local Species;
- Luina hypoleuca- silverback luina [E-flora]
Habitat/Range: "Mesic to dry rocky slopes and cliffs in the lowland, montane and subalpine zones; frequent in SW BC, known from S Vancouver Island and the adjacent mainland; S to CA." [IFBC-E-flora]
Status: Native [E-flora]
References
- E-flora - Luina hypoleuca, http://linnet.geog.ubc.ca/Atlas/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Luina%20hypoleuca&redblue=Both&lifeform=7, Accessed December 23, 2019
- Jepson - 2013. Luina, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_IJM.pl?tid=514, accessed on Jan 22 2015