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Wyethia helenioides
Also called Gray Mule Ears, Grey Mule's Ears
Whitehead mule-ears is a low-growing, sunflower-like wildflower native to California, found in sunny clearings and oak woodland edges. It is a wild species rather than a common garden plant, so it needs full sun and good drainage to thrive.
Wyethia helenioides is a species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae commonly referred to as gray mule's ears or whitehead mule-ears.
This species occurs chiefly in the California Coast Ranges, Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges, and some areas of the Sierra Nevada foothills in California.
Balsamorhiza sagittata · Mule-ears · California compassplant · Arizona mule-ears · Coast Range mule-ears · Humboldt mule-ears · Woolly mule-ears · Mule-ears
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Wyethia helenioides 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.
