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Label

Accession No. 10310 
Family Asteraceae 
Species Malacothrix glabrata (A. Gray ex D.C. Eaton) A. Gray
Common name "smooth desert-dandelion"
Collector Information D.M. Barnes  (4204)  18 April 2005
Geography United States,  Utah, Washington County
Lat./Long. 37°  1' 52" N, 113°  59 ' 57" W at 2303 feet (702 m)
Locality at the mouth of a wash along the eastern bank of Beaver Dam Wash, ca. 2 air miles N of the Arizona state line and 3 air miles E of the Nevada state line; 
Ecology warm desert shrub community with barrel cactus and greasewood. 
Climate NCDC temperatures, daily high (red), daily average (green) and daily low (blue), from 1970 to 2000 at this location.   NCDC average monthly precipitation from 1970 to 2000 at this location.

Taxonomy


Synonyms recognized by ITIS (bold taxon is currently accepted):

     Malacothrix glabrata (Gray ex D.C. Eat.) Gray
     Malacothrix californica var. glabrata Gray ex D.C. Eat.

Common Name(s): smooth desert dandelion, smooth desertdandelion.

Taxonomic Hierarchy: (ITIS TSN=38050, click for more information and references)

        Kingdom: Plantae
            Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
                Division: Magnoliophyta
                    Class: Magnoliopsida
                        Subclass: Asteridae
                            Order: Asterales
                                Family: Asteraceae
                                    Genus: Malacothrix
                                        Species: Malacothrix glabrata
                                                                                            

Images

Available images of this specimen (click to view):
specimen image: 10310s2.jpg

Images of other samples of the same species:
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03970
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06531
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08542
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10245
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10390
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10516
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10559
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11075
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11382
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11382
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11421
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11421
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11482
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11482
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12615
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12615
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12615
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13194

Nearby Accessions


Other accessions in the database collected near this one:

Accession Name Dist., dir.
12544 Adenophyllum cooperi     same section
10319 Ambrosia eriocentra      "woolly bur-sage" same section
14513 Ambrosia salsola     same section
10314 Amphipappus fremontii  var. spinosus   "Fremont's chaffbush" same section
10316 Amsinckia tessellata      "bristly fiddleneck" same section
14511 Bebbia juncea  var. aspera  same section
14520 Brickellia atractyloides     473 ft. SW
10303 Camissonia refracta      "narrow-leaf desert primrose" same section
10315 Chaenactis fremontii      "Fremont's pincushion" same section
10309 Chorizanthe rigida      "rigid spineflower" same section
10254 Cryptantha micrantha      "purple-rooted forget-me-not" same section
10304 Cryptantha pterocarya  var. cycloptera   "winged-nut forget-me-not" same section
14514 Ephedra nevadensis     same section
10305 Eriastrum sparsiflorum      "Great Basin woollystar" same section
10318 Eriogonum fasciculatum      "Eastern Mojave wild buckwheat" same section
14517 Eriogonum fasciculatum  var. polifolium  2012 ft. NW
14525 Eriogonum fasciculatum  var. polifolium  473 ft. SW
10317 Eschscholzia minutiflora      "pygmy poppy" same section
14526 Krameria erecta     473 ft. SW
14521 Krameria grayi     473 ft. SW
14497 Krameria grayi     2651 ft. W
10302 Linanthus bigelovii      "Bigelow's linanthus" same section
10255 Linanthus demissus      "desertsnow" same section
10311 Lupinus concinnus  ssp. orcuttii   "Orcutt's lupine" same section
14518 Lycium cooperi     473 ft. SW
10253 Monoptilon bellidiforme      "daisy desertstar" same section
10306 Nama demissum      "purplemat" same section
10252 Nemacladus glanduliferus      "glandular threadplant" same section
10308 Phacelia ambigua      "notch-leaf scorpionweed" same section
10312 Plantago insularis     same section
14516 Psilostrophe cooperi     2012 ft. NW
10307 Stylocline micropoides      "woollyhead nest-straw" same section

Locale


Nearby locations from the USGS Geographic Name Information System (GNIS) database:

Name County Dist., dir. Elevation (ft.) 7.5' Quad Name
Beaver Dam Wash (Valley) Washington County, UT 2.2 mi. S   Docs Pass 
Mormon Well (Well) Mohave County, AZ 3.6 mi. S 2136  Littlefield 
Welcome Creek (Stream) Mohave County, AZ 3.9 mi. S   West Mountain Peak 
Initial Monument (Locale) Lincoln County, NV 3.5 mi. SW 2546  Terry Benches 
Burgess Wash (Valley) Washington County, UT 4.1 mi. N   Castle Cliff 
Snow Spring Wash (Stream) Lincoln County, NV 4.6 mi. N   Scarecrow Peak 
Snow Spring Wash (Valley) Washington County, UT 4.6 mi. N 2562  Terry Benches 
Reber Wash (Valley) Washington County, UT 5.4 mi. N   Castle Cliff 
Terry Benches (Bench) Lincoln County, NV 4.7 mi. NW 2815  Terry Benches 

Links

Taxon Links for species Malacothrix glabrata  (A. Gray ex D.C. Eaton) A. Gray

CalPhotos, Berkeley Digital Library Project

CNPS Manual of California Vegetation Database

USDA Plants database
University of Washington Herbarium: Plants of Washington (images)

Texas A&M University: Image Library (images)

Lady Bird Johnson's Wildflower Center

Google Images

External link to this species in the UVU Herbarium:
http://herbarium.UVU.edu/virtual/search.asp?taxon=Malacothrix+glabrata

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