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Jepson's woolly sunflower

Eriophyllum jepsonii

Jepson's woolly sunflower
Photo: (c) Chloe and Trevor Van Loon, some rights reserved (CC BY), CC BY 4.0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
California

About

Eriophyllum jepsonii is a rare North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name Jepson's woolly sunflower. It is endemic to California, where it has been found in the Central Coast Ranges and adjacent hills from Contra Costa County to Ventura County.

Eriophyllum jepsonii grows in dry habitat such as chaparral and oak woodland. This is a small shrub producing woolly, whitish stems 50 to 80 centimeters (20-32 inches) tall. It is lined with lobed oval leaves each a few centimeters long and coated in woolly fibers. The inflorescence produces one or more flower heads containing many glandular or bristly yellowish disc florets surrounded 6 to 8 yellow ray florets each up to a centimeter long. The fruit is an achene tipped with a pappus of approximately 8 scales.

Other Eriophyllum plants

Beautiful woolly sunflower · Golden-yarrow · Congdon'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 jepsonii 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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