Branched Lagophylla, Common Hareleaf, Common Rabbitleaf, Hareleaf, Rabbitleaf, Slender Hareleaf
Lagophylla ramosissima
Synonym: Lagophylla ramosissima ssp. ramosissima
The photo above shows the flowerhead of rabbitleaf as seen at Horsethief Butte..........October 7, 2006. 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 at Horsethief Butte.........October 7, 2006. Note how the bracts resemble the long, narrow ears of rabbits.
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Late-blooming common hareleaf as seen along the old road up to the old quarry and Klickitat County Dump above the Crawford Oaks trailhead, Columbia Hills State Park.........October 2, 2016.
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.
Paul Slichter