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Agnorhiza reticulata
Also called El Dorado County Mule's Ears, El Dorado County Mule Ears
El Dorado mule-ears is a rare perennial sunflower-like herb found only in a small area of north-central California's Sierra Nevada foothills. It is a wild species of chaparral and woodland, rarely grown in gardens, and it spreads mainly by underground rhizomes.
Agnorhiza reticulata (syn. Wyethia reticulata), known by the common name El Dorado County mule's ears, is a rare species of flowering plant found only in a small region of north-central California.
Agnorhiza reticulata grows in the California interior chaparral and woodlands habitats of the Sierra Nevada foothills. It has been found in El Dorado, Sacramento, and Yuba Counties.
Bolander's mule-ears · Hall's mule-ears · Coville's mule-ears · Southern mule-ears · Mule-ears
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Agnorhiza reticulata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
