Stansbury's Rockdaisy
 Perityle stansburyana
syn. Perityle stansburyi
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Laphamia stansburii
Asteraceae - Aster Family

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Photo Details - ©Nicky Davis
Located  on cliffs in Goshen Canyon, Utah - June 6, 2014 - Identified by Bill Gray

Distribution
http://plants.usda.gov/java/county?state_name=Utah&statefips=49&symbol=PEST14

Description
Small,  shrubby, perennial, clump forming, 7-30 cm tall, as broad or more, leaves glandular minutely rough, tiny course hairs, mainly alternate leaves 3-14 mm long and 1.5 -12 mm wide, broadly ovate to deltoid or orbicular, some are lobed, 10-14 yellow ray flowers 3-5.5 mm long, disk flowers numerous.  In limestone, dolomite and igneous ignimbrite (ash flow tuff) outcrops, in mixed desert shrub, pinyon-juniper and mountain brush area at 180 to 2075 m.
Page 250 "A Utah Flora" Fourth Edition, revised.  Stanley L. Welsh, N. Duane Atwood, Sherel Goodrich, and Larry C. Higgins, BYU Press

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