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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Microseris nutans
|accepted_authority=(Hooker) Schultz-Bipontinus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Jahresber. Pollichia
|place=22–24: 309. 1866
|year=1866
}}
|common_names=Nodding microseris or silverpuffs
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Scorzonella nutans
|authority=Hooker
|rank=species
|publication_title=London J. Bot.
|publication_place=6: 253. 1847
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae;Microseris;Microseris nutans
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Microseris]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Microseris nutans]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 339
|treatment_page=page 340
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 10–70 cm; taprooted. <b>Stems</b> branched, leafy distally. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; petiolate (proximally, distal often sessile, clasping); blades linear to oblanceolate, 5–30 cm, margins entire or remotely dentate to pinnately lobed (usually with narrow rachises and linear teeth or lobes), apices acuminate, faces glabrous or lightly scurfy-puberulent. <b>Peduncles</b> erect or ascending (4–35 cm), ebracteate or leafy. <b>Involucres</b> broadly to narrowly ovoid in fruit, 8–22 mm. <b>Phyllaries</b>: apices erect, abaxial faces glabrous or scurfy-puberulent; outer lanceolate to triangular or linear, apices acute or acuminate; inner lanceolate, apices acuminate, both faces usually lightly black-villous. <b>Florets</b> 10–75; corollas yellow, surpassing phyllaries by 5+ mm. <b>Cypselae</b> columnar, 3.5–8 mm; pappi of 15–30, silvery, linear to lanceolate or oblong, (flat, glabrous) aristate scales 1–3(–5) mm (margins entire, apices acute or lacerate), aristae (slender) plumose. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr-–Jul.
|habitat=Various soils, grasslands, brushlands, woodlands, and coniferous forests
|elevation=100–3000 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;S.Dak.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
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name=Microseris nutans
|authority=(Hooker) Schultz-Bipontinus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Scorzonella nutans
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr-–Jul.
|habitat=Various soils, grasslands, brushlands, woodlands, and coniferous forests
|elevation=100–3000 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;Oreg.;S.Dak.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Jahresber. Pollichia
|publication year=1866
|special status=Endemic
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae
|genus=Microseris
|species=Microseris nutans
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