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Eriophyllum ambiguum
Eriophyllum ambiguum is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name beautiful woolly sunflower. It is native to the deserts and adjacent hills of southern and eastern California, northwestern Arizona, and southern Nevada.
Eriophyllum ambiguum grows in chaparral, woodlands, and desert habitat. It is an annual herb growing decumbent or upright with stems up to 30 centimeters (1 foot) long. The leaves are widely lance-shaped or oblong and sometimes have lobes, with woolly hairs on both sides. The inflorescence produces one flower head containing many yellow disc florets and 6 to 10 yellow, white, or bicolored ray florets which are each 2 millimeters to one centimeter (0.08-0.40 inches) long. The fruit is a rough-haired achene which may have a very small pappus.
Golden-yarrow · Congdon's woolly sunflower · Jepson's woolly sunflower · Common woolly sunflower · White Easterbonnets · San Mateo woolly sunflower · Mojave woolly sunflower · Manystem woolly sunflower · Yosemite woolly sunflower · Pringle's woolly sunflower · Seaside woolly sunflower · Wallace's Woollyleaf
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eriophyllum ambiguum 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.
