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Syntrichopappus fremontii
Also called Fremont's Syntrichopappus, Yellow Ray Frémont's Gold
Syntrichopappus fremontii (Fremont's-gold, yellowray Fremont's-gold false woolly daisy, or Fremont's xerasid), is a small annual plant in the family Asteraceae. It has yellow flower heads and grows in the Mojave Desert, to Utah and northwestern Arizona.
Syntrichopappus fremontii grows at an altitude of 600–2500 m, in open sandy or gravelly areas, often in association with Creosote bush scrub or Joshua tree woodland vegetation. It is distributed throughout the Mojave Desert, the southwest Sonoran Desert, and parts of northwestern Arizona, southwestern Utah and northern Baja California.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Syntrichopappus fremontii 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.
