Agoseris apargioides var. apargioides

Coast dandelion

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Coast dandelion is a California native perennial found in central California Coast (from San Francisco south to Cambria) on coastal dunes and sand hills at elevations below 100 meters. Flowering from April to May, this plant produces yellow flowers with elongated ligules 8 to 16 millimeters long that prominently exceed the flower's surrounding bracts. Growing with generally prostrate to decumbent stems, it spreads low across sandy terrain with a distinctive growth habit. Its leaves are linear to oblanceolate, ranging from 1 to 15 millimeters wide, with edges that can be entire, toothed, or lobed, and ranging from glabrous to moderately hairy with white-translucent hairs. The fruit develops as a fusiform to obconic body with straight or slightly wavy ribs that are somewhat reduced toward the base.

Habitat: Coastal dunes, sand hills

Bloom period: Apr-May

Elevation: < 100 m

Bioregions: c CCo (San Francisco s to Cambria).

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