[Members of the Sunflower Family with Button-like Flower Heads in Mount Adams Country]

False Silverback, Rainiera, Tongue-leaf Luina, Tongue-leaved Luina

Rainiera stricta

Synonym: Luina stricta

False Silverback, Rainiera, Tongue-leaved Luina, Tongue-leaf Luina: Rainiera stricta (Synonym: Luina stricta)

False silverback in bloom along the Green Mountain Trail #110, Gifford Pinchot National Forest.......August 5, 2022. This is about one and one-half miles northwest of Horseshoe Lake or about 2 miles northwest of Muddy Meadows. So far, this is the only location I've seen this species near Mt. Adams.

Flower head of Tongue-leaved Luina: Rainiera stricta - Involucral bracts of Tongue-leaved Luina: Rainiera stricta - Flower head of Tongue-leaved Luina: Rainiera stricta

These 3 photos show close-up sideviews of the discoid flower head of tongue-leaved luina as seen in open forest on Lookout Mt. in the Badger Creek Wilderness to the east of Mt. Hood.........August 2, 2008.

Tongue-leaf Luina, Tongue-leaved Luina, Rainiera: Rainiera stricta (Synonym: Luina stricta) - Mature fruits of Tongue-leaf Luina, Tongue-leaved Luina, Rainiera: Rainiera stricta (Synonym: Luina stricta)

Tongue-leaved luina as seen going to seed in open forest along the Fret Creek Trail #456A Badger Creek Wilderness to the east of Mt. Hood........September 26, 2021.

Tongue-leaved Luina: Rainiera stricta (formerly Luina stricta)

This photo shows tongue-leaved luina as seen in open forest on Lookout Mt. in the Badger Creek Wilderness to the east of Mt. Hood..........August 2, 2008.

Seed heads of Tongue-leaf Luina, Tongue-leaved Luina, Rainiera: Rainiera stricta (Synonym: Luina stricta) - Plumed seeds of Tongue-leaf Luina, Tongue-leaved Luina, Rainiera: Rainiera stricta (Synonym: Luina stricta)

Maturing fruits and seed heads of tongue-leaved luina as seen at the base of boulder fields along the Boulder Lake Way Trail #463, Mt. Hood National Forest.........September 20, 2018.
Paul Slichter