Agoseris ×dasycarpa

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Agoseris is a California native perennial found in northern Sierra Nevada Mountains and Modoc Plateau in moist meadows, marshes, dry grasslands, and open forests at elevations of 1,100 to 2,500 meters. Flowering from May to August, this plant produces yellow flowers with rosy-purple involucre heads 10 to 30 millimeters wide. Growing 15 to 45 centimeters tall with erect or decumbent stems, it has a distinctive herbaceous form. Its leaves are oblanceolate, 10 to 30 centimeters long, with 1 to 4 pairs of lanceolate lobes, ranging from glabrous and glaucous to densely hairy. The fruit develops a fusiform body 6 to 9 millimeters long with a short 1 to 2 millimeter beak.

Habitat: Moist meadows, marshes, dry grassland, open forest

Bloom period: May-Aug

Elevation: 1100-2500 m

Bioregions: n SNH, MP

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