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Sawtooth goldenbush

Hazardia squarrosa

Also called Saw Tooth Goldenbush, Saw Toothed Goldenbush

Sawtooth goldenbush
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Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
California to NW. Mexico
Climate
subtropical

About

Hazardia squarrosa is a North American species of shrub in the family Asteraceae known by the common name sawtooth goldenbush. It is native to California in the United States and Baja California in Mexico.

Hazardia squarrosa grows in coastal and inland scrub and chaparral habitats. It a shrub of variable size, from low and clumpy to sprawling over 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) tall. It is covered in thick, sharply toothed leaves a few centimeters long and is generally not very hairy or woolly. It bears numerous flower heads covered in greenish, pointed phyllaries and opening into an array of long yellow to slightly reddish disc florets but no ray florets.

Other Hazardia plants

Barberry Leaf Goldenbush · Island hazardia · Island bristleweed · Colonet Mesa Hazardia · Orcutt's bristleweed · El Rosario Goldenbush · Serpentine bristleweed · San Quintín Goldenbush · Bristleweed

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hazardia squarrosa 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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