Agoseris aurantiaca var. aurantiaca

Orange agoseris

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Orange agoseris is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, northern California Coast Ranges, high Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada, and eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains in meadows, scrub, forest, and streamside habitats at elevations of 1,500 to 3,500 meters. Flowering from June to September, this plant produces vibrant orange flowers (rarely yellow, pink, or purple) with ligules 5 to 10 millimeters long that often exceed the flower head's involucre. Growing with erect stems 10 to 50 centimeters tall, it develops distinctive leaves with 2 to 4 pairs of spreading lanceolate lobes. Its leaves are narrowly to broadly oblanceolate, 10 to 30 centimeters long, with petioles often tinged purple and surfaces slightly glaucous. The fruit develops a slender beak 5 to 10 millimeters long, with a cylindric to obconic body 6 to 9 millimeters in length.

Habitat: Meadows, scrub, forest, streamsides

Bloom period: Jun-Sep

Elevation: 1500-3500 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoRH, CaRH, SNH, MP (mostly Wrn), SNE (Sweetwater Mtns)

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