Four-nerve Daisy (5)
The genus Tetraneuris, Four-nerve Daisy, is distinguished by the petal tips which have three notches. Tetraneuris means four-nerved and refers to the four veins in the petal or ray flower. These can be seen in the photo of Ives' Four-nerve Daisy below.
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Perky Sue Family:
Sunflower (Asteraceae) Grows to 16" with hairy leaves, bracts and stems and leaves on the flower stem. Flower head has 8 to 14 rays.
Flora of North America reference. |
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Stemmy Four-nerve Daisy Family:
Sunflower (Asteraceae) Grows to 12" with narrow, oblong, sparsely hairy, gray-green, basal leaves and hairy stems and bracts. Flower head has 12 to 26 rays. Flora of North America reference. |
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Ives' Four-nerved Daisy Family:
Sunflower (Asteraceae) Grows to 10" with mostly basal, tightly clustered, narrow leaves pointing upwards. Stems and bracts are hairy but leaves are not, unlike the species above.
Flora of North America reference. |
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Stemless Four-nerved Daisy Family:
Sunflower (Asteraceae) Grows 4" to 8" with leafless stems from a rosette of densely hairy basal leaves. Leaves are spatulate to lance-shaped. The stems and bracts are also densely hairy. Flower heads have 8-14 ray flowers.
Flora of North America reference. |
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Goldflower Family:
Sunflower (Asteraceae) Grows to only 3" high with hairy stems and hairy, simple lance-shaped leaves. Identified by the notched petals and densely hairy phyllaries compared to Alpine Goldenweeds. Flora of North America reference. |
