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Common woolly sunflower

Eriophyllum lanatum

Also called Woolly Eriophyllum, Woolly Sunflower, Oregon Sunshine

Common woolly sunflower
Photo: Walter Siegmund (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun
Native range
W. Canada to NW. Mexico
Climate
temperate

About

Eriophyllum lanatum, with the common names common woolly sunflower, Oregon sunshine and golden yarrow, is a common, widespread, North American plant in the family Asteraceae.

Where it grows

Eriophyllum lanatum is native to western North America. It is most common across California, also growing north through Oregon into British Columbia and east through Idaho into Wyoming, and through Nevada into Utah. This species has only been collected from Mexico once, on Guadalupe Island, and it is most likely extirpated there.

Other Eriophyllum plants

Beautiful woolly sunflower · Golden-yarrow · Congdon's woolly sunflower · Jepson's 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 lanatum 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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