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Eriastrum wilcoxii
Eriastrum wilcoxii is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name Wilcox's woollystar. It is native to the western United States, where it grows in various types of desert and plateau habitat. It is an annual herb producing a thin, branching, usually woolly stem up to about 30 centimeters tall. The leaves are narrow and thready, up to 3 centimeters long, and sometimes divided into two or more lobes. The inflorescence is a woolly cluster of narrow, leaflike bracts laced with webby fibers. The small flowers have yellow throats and blue corollas with lobes up to half a centimeter long.
Abrams' woollystar · Brandegee's woollystar · Giant woollystar · Miniature woollystar · Desert woollystar · Hoover's woollystar · Yellow woollystar · Tehachapi woollystar · Sapphire woollystar · Great Basin woollystar · Wand woollystar · Woollystar
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eriastrum wilcoxii 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.
