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Chaenactis stevioides
Also called Broad Flower Pincushion, Desert Pincushion, Esteve Pincushion
Chaenactis stevioides, with the common names Esteve's pincushion and desert pincushion, is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family. It is also sometimes called false yarrow or broad-leaved Chaenactis.
Esteve's pincushion is native to California and the Great Basin of the United States and the southwestern deserts extending into Mexico, where it grows in open arid and semiarid habitat. According to Flora of North America, it is "among the most abundant spring wildflowers in the higher Mojave Desert and southern Great Basin." It is also found in the southern California chaparral and woodlands habitats.
Southern Sierra pincushion · White pincushion · Pebble pincushion · Cusick's pincushion · Douglas' dustymaiden · Evermann's pincushion · Pincushion flower · Esteve's Pincushion · Yellow pincushion · Chaenactis lacera · Bighead dustymaiden · Nevada dustymaiden
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Chaenactis stevioides 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.
