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Tehachapi woollystar

Eriastrum pluriflorum

Tehachapi woollystar
Photo: John Game, CC BY 2.0
Family
Polemoniaceae (Polemoni family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
WC. & C. California
Climate
temperate

About

Eriastrum pluriflorum is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common names Tehachapi woollystar and many-flowered eriastrum.

Where it grows

This wildflower is endemic to California where it is an uncommon resident of varied chaparral and woodland habitats in the central part of the state from the Inner South California Coast Ranges and northwestern Transverse Ranges, across the San Joaquin Valley to the Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains, and into the western Mojave Desert.

Other Eriastrum plants

Abrams' woollystar · Brandegee's woollystar · Giant woollystar · Miniature woollystar · Desert woollystar · Hoover's woollystar · Yellow woollystar · Sapphire woollystar · Great Basin woollystar · Wand woollystar · Wilcox's woollystar · Woollystar

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eriastrum pluriflorum 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.

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