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Chaenactis douglasii
Also called Dusty Maiden, Douglas Dustymaiden, Douglas's Dusty Maiden, Hoary False Yarrow, Hoary Pincushion, Douglas' Pincushion, Hoary Chaenactis
Douglas' dustymaiden is a variable, mostly perennial wildflower in the daisy family, native to western North America from British Columbia to New Mexico, found from desert to alpine rock fields. It thrives in dry, open, sunny sites with excellent drainage.
Chaenactis douglasii is a North American species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common name Douglas' dustymaiden.
The plant is found in western Canada and the western United States from British Columbia to Saskatchewan, and south to California to New Mexico, with a few isolated populations in Nebraska and the Dakotas. It grows in a wide variety of habitats, including harsh environments such as rock fields in alpine climates in the Sierra Nevada, east of the crest of the Cascade Range of Washington and Oregon, scrubland and desert, and disturbed areas such as roadsides. Distributed over a wide range of elevations, from sea level to 4,000 metres (13,000 feet), it is found most often between 1,800–2,400 m (6,000–8,000 ft).
Some Plateau Indian tribes used this plant as a dressing for burns, wounds, and sores.
Southern Sierra pincushion · White pincushion · Pebble pincushion · Cusick's pincushion · Evermann's pincushion · Pincushion flower · Esteve's Pincushion · Yellow pincushion · Chaenactis lacera · Bighead dustymaiden · Nevada dustymaiden · John Day's pincushion
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chaenactis douglasii 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.
