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Lepidospartum latisquamum is a species of flowering shrub in the daisy family known by the common name Nevada broomsage. It is native to the southwestern United States from California to Utah, where it grows in woodland and scrub. This is a broomlike shrub growing ribbed stems upright to form a narrow, erect profile. The ridges of the stem are hairless, while the grooves between them are coated in grayish woolly hairs. The leaves are needlelike to thready, 2 to 3 centimeters long and mostly hairless. The inflorescence is a loose cluster of 3 to 5 flower heads. Each head has a nearly cylindrical base of flat, wide phyllaries. It is discoid, containing about five yellow disc florets and no ray florets. The fruit is a hairy, ridged achene with a pappus of long bristles.

Plant type

Shrub

Plant communities

Pinyon-Juniper Woodland, Sagebrush Scrub, Shadscale Scrub

Bees
Butterflies

Pollinators supported

0 confirmed and 31 likely

  • Likely

  • Confirmed

Mormon Metalmark

Apodemia mormo

Great Purple Hairstreak

Atlides halesus

Crotch's Bumble Bee

Bombus crotchii

Yellow-faced Bumble Bee

Bombus vosnesenskii