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

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