White Easterbonnets is a small spring-blooming annual wildflower of desert gravel and sand, rarely taller than 10 cm. It is a wild plant rather than a common garden subject, so it is grown mainly by seed in dry, sunny, well-drained spots.
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Annual
Light
Full sun
Water
Water lightly to establish seedlings, then let it rely on winter and spring rain.
Soil
Sandy or gravelly, very well-drained soil
Temperature
Tolerates cool spring nights and hot desert days; protect from hard frost
How easy
Easy
Native range
SW. U.S.A. to New Mexico and NW. Mexico
Climate
subtropical
About
Eriophyllum lanosum, the white woolly daisy or white easterbonnets, is a spring wildflower in the family Asteraceae. It grows in the eastern Mojave Desert and the Sonoran Desert in the southwestern United States (California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico) and northwestern Mexico (Baja California + Sonora).
Eriophyllum lanosum is a small annual plant, rarely reaching a height of more than 10 cm (3.9 inches). The plant is often unnoticed because it blends in with gravel and sand. It has a white-woolly stem and moderately woolly leaves. The plant produces one flower head per flowering stalk. Each head has 8–10 ray florets, white with red veins. These surround 10–20 tiny yellow disc florets.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.