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Psilocarphus elatior
Also called Tall Woollyheads, Tall Woolly Marbles
Meadow woollyheads is a small annual wildflower native to the Pacific Northwest, growing in seasonally wet meadows, seeps and vernal pools. It is a wild native rather than a garden plant, so it is grown mainly in native-plant or vernal-pool restoration settings.
Psilocarphus elatior is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names tall woollyheads, meadow woollyheads and tall woolly-marbles. It is native to the Pacific Northwest in western North America from Vancouver Island, where it is known from just a few occurrences, to northern California. It grows in seasonally moist spots such as meadows, spring seeps, and vernal pools.
This is a small erect annual herb growing up to about 15 centimeters tall with a pale silvery or gray-green branching stem coated in woolly or cobwebby fibers. The leaves are linear or lance-shaped and up to about 3.5 centimeters long. They are located along the stem and there are no basal leaves.
Short woollyheads · Oregon woollyheads · Slender woollyheads · Woollyheads
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Psilocarphus elatior by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
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.
