Agoseris ×elata

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Agoseris elata is a California native perennial found in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in montane meadows, lake margins, and streamsides at elevations of 1,400 to 2,800 meters. Flowering from June to September, this plant produces orange or yellow flowers that often dry purple, with blossoms in heads 15 to 20 millimeters wide featuring rosy-purple phyllaries. Growing 15 to 65 centimeters tall with generally erect stems, it develops distinctive oblanceolate leaves 15 to 45 centimeters long with 2 to 4 pairs of lanceolate lobes. Its leaves are mostly glabrous, sometimes glaucous, with white-opaque hairs occasionally present. The fruit develops with a body 8 to 10 millimeters long, featuring straight ribs and a beak approximately equal in length to the body.

Habitat: Montane meadows, lake margins, streamsides

Bloom period: Jun-Sep

Elevation: generally 1400-2800 m

Bioregions: SNH

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