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Chaenactis macrantha
Also called Bighead Dustymaidens, Showy Dustymaidens
Chaenactis macrantha is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common names bighead dustymaiden and Mojave pincushion. It is native to the Great Basin and the southwestern deserts of the United States, in California, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, southwestern Idaho, and southeastern Oregon. It grows in dry, open habitat with gravelly, sandy soils, often calcareous or alkaline in nature.
Chaenactis macrantha is an annual herb growing one or more branching stems to 30 - 35 centimeters (12-14 inches) in maximum height. The leaves are a few centimeters long and divided into many lobes. The inflorescence bears one or more flower heads on long peduncles. The flower head is lined with woolly phyllaries which have recurved tips. The head contains many white or pink-tinted flowers which open at night. The fruit is an achene about a centimeter long including the pappus.
Southern Sierra pincushion · White pincushion · Pebble pincushion · Cusick's pincushion · Douglas' dustymaiden · Evermann's pincushion · Pincushion flower · Esteve's Pincushion · Yellow pincushion · Chaenactis lacera · Nevada dustymaiden · John Day's pincushion
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chaenactis macrantha by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
