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Pale Agoseris

Agoseris monticola

Also called Sierra Nevada Agroseris, Mountain Agoseris, Sierra Nevada Agoseris, Mountain Dandelion

Pale Agoseris
Photo: Dean Wm. Taylor, CC BY 2.0

Pale Agoseris (Agoseris monticola) is a wild perennial daisy-family herb of western U.S. mountains, forming a ground-hugging rosette of leaves with a single yellow dandelion-like flower head. It is a native wildflower of the Cascades and Sierra Nevada rather than a common garden plant.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly once established, letting the soil dry between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, gritty mountain soil or sandy loam.
Temperature
Tolerates cold mountain winters; protect from prolonged heat above 30 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
W. U.S.A.

About

Agoseris monticola is a North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae known by the common name Sierra Nevada agoseris or Sierra Nevada mountain dandelion. It grows in the mountains of the western United States, primarily the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada, but also on other mountains in Nevada and Idaho.

Other Agoseris plants

Woolly goat chicory · Orange agoseris · Pale agoseris · Bigflower agoseris · Annual agoseris · Coast Range Agoseris · Steppe agoseris · Spearleaf agoseris · Mountain Dandelion

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Agoseris monticola 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.

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