Vegetation Around Las Vegas, Bush Arrowleaf (Pleurocoronis pluriseta)

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Bush Arrowleaf (Pleurocoronis pluriseta)
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General: Bush Arrowleaf (Pleurocoronis pluriseta) is a spindly subshrub of damp places. The leaves have very long petioles, and the blade is small and arrowhead shaped.

Bush Arrowleaf is a sunflower, but it has disk flowers only.

Bush Arrowleaf is a fairly common component of vegetation communities in wet or damp places, including places such as rocky, north-facing (therefore cooler) rock faces in the Lower Sonoran (Creosote-Bursage Flats) and Upper Sonoran (Mojave Desert Scrub) life zones.

Family: Sunflower (Asteraceae)

Other Names: Hofmeisteria pluriseta

Plant Form: Usually a small, spindly shrub

Height: to about 2 feet tall

Bark:

Stems: thin and lanky

Leaves: Arrowhead shapes with a long petiole

Flowers: Disk flowers only (no petals on this sunflower)

Seeds:

Habitat: damp or cooler microhabitats

Elevation: to about 4,000 ft

Distribution: California to Utah and Arizona

Comments:

Typical habitat in shady canyon	Typical habitat in shady canyon
Unusual location where plant is growing in full sun	Plant appears dead during winter
Unusually large Bush Arrowleaf	Unusually large Bush Arrowleaf


Flower buds	Flower buds are sticky glandular
Flower buds are sticky glandular	Flower bud almost ready to open
Flower ready to open	Flower ready to open
Bush Arrowleaf flowers	Bush Arrowleaf flowers
Bush Arrowleaf flowers	Bush Arrowleaf flowers
Spent flowers	Spent flowers

Note: All distances, elevations, and other facts are approximate. Names generally follow the USDA database.
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