Upon looking at the Oregon Flora Project plant atlas, it looks like all the
observations in my area for townsendia have been florifer with one
observation 4 miles east of me.  There have been no observations of parryi.
So mine is most likely florifer. But this discussion is giving me a lot of
information for identification.  Thank you!
Carolyn Poff Strong


On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:14 AM, penstemon <[email protected]> wrote:

>  >Thank you.  You've given me something to check.
>
>
> Sure. It gets a little complicated, though. I pulled out Beaman's monograph
> and found this: few, thick stems=parryi. Many, slender stems=florifer. The
> two do overlap in northeastern Idaho and northwestern Wyoming and form
> hybrids.
> Townsendia parryi is generally apomictic (the populations that form hybrids
> are sexual). "The clearly marked features of this species are blurred only
> by hybridization with T. florifer."
>
>
> Bob Nold
> Denver, Colorado, USA
>
>
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