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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Annual
General Desc:
A tiny, woolly tufted plant with small golden yellow flower heads. In drought plants often grow about 1/4 inch before producing 1Â head, ensuring at least some seeds. In moist conditions plants produce taller stems, many heads and abundant seeds.
Identification notes: Very hairy annuals, ray flowers yellow, numbering 5 to 10; disc flowers glandular; flower heads solitary at the tip of 1/2 to 4 inch long stems; stems numerous making the flower heads appear crowded; fruit with scales.
Height:
Up to 3 inches
Habitat Description: Sandy or gravelly openings, creosote-bush or sagebrush scrublands, Joshua Tree or pinyon-juniper woodlands, or chaparral, mesas and plains.
Plant Communities:
Desert Scrub, Interior Chaparral, Pinyon Juniper Woodland
Elevation: 2000 - 4500 feet
Color:
Golden yellow
Shape:
Daisy or dandelion-like in round clusters
Tubular:
N
Flowering Period:
Mar - Jun
Description:
Heads solitary at the ends of branches, but flower stems are usually short and the branches numerous making the heads appear crowded; bracts about 1/4 inch high; phyllaries 6 to 10, egg-shaped, distinct; ray flowers 5 to 10, yellow, 1/8 to 1/4 inch long.
Leaf Color:
Grayish-green
Leaf Type:
Simple
Leaf Shape:
Narrow
Leaf Margin:
Smooth
Leaf Attachment:
Basal and alternate
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
Leaves and stems
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
Very hairy leaf blades, narrow at the base, usually smooth but rarely 3-lobed at the apex, 1/8 to 1/2 inch long.
Fruit Type: Achene
Fruit Notes: Achenes (single-seeded, sunflower-like) about 1/16 inch long, narrowly linear, minutely sparse or smooth; pappus (scales or bristles at the apex of the achene) of 6 to 10 opaque, short paleae (chaffy scale or bract) or sometimes none.
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