Rabbitleaf, Hareleaf
Lagophylla ramosissima
The photo above shows the flowerhead of rabbitleaf as seen at Conboy Lake National Wildlife Refuge along Lakeside Road about one-half mile west of Fisher Hill Road.................September 8, 2007. The flowerhead consists in this case of 6 disk flowers at center and 5 ray flowers with the tips three-lobed.
The photo above shows a close-up sideview of the flowerhead of rabbitleaf as seen in dry prairie along Lakeside Road in Conboy Lake NWR.................August 10, 2007. Note how the bracts (and leaves) resemble the long, narrow ears of rabbits.
The photo above shows several flower heads
of rabbitleaf. Note the numerous silvery, spreading hairs on the stems, leaves
and involucral bracts.Photographed at the Conboy Lake National Wildlife Refuge
headquarters to the southeast of Mt. Adams....................July 28, 2006.
The photo above shows a close-up of the leaves,
brownish stem and a flower head. Photographed at the same location as above.
Rabbitleaf can be small and unbranched or large and much-branched. This photo
shows only one of about 20 branches of a plant found at the Conboy Lake NWR
headquarters.
The photo above shows a close-up sideview of the involucral bracts of rabbitleaf as seen at Conboy Lake National Wildlife Refuge along Lakeside Road about one-half mile west of Fisher Hill Road.................September 8, 2007.