Acamptopappus shockleyi

Shockley's goldenhead

Family: Asteraceae · Type: shrub · Native

Shockley's goldenhead is a California native shrub found in the eastern Sierra Nevada and northeastern Mojave Desert on mesas, slopes, ridges, ravines, and washes at elevations of 500 to 2,000 meters. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces golden yellow ray flowers with small disk flowers in heads 7 to 10 millimeters wide. Growing with decumbent to ascending stems generally less than 40 centimeters tall, it forms a low, spreading habit with minutely hairy branches. Its leaves are densely hairy, oblanceolate, and narrow, measuring up to 2.5 centimeters long and 4 millimeters wide. The compact golden flower heads, typically solitary, feature 5 to 14 ray flowers and 30 to 80 disk flowers, creating a delicate botanical display.

Habitat: Mesas, slopes, ridges, ravines, washes

Bloom period: Apr-Jun

Elevation: 500-2000 m

Bioregions: SNE, ne DMoj

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.