Agoseris glauca var. glauca
Pale agoseris
Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native
Pale agoseris is a California native perennial found in the central Sierra Nevada and Great Basin in wet, often alkaline or saline meadows and stream margins at elevations of 1,400 to 2,500 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces bright yellow flowers in heads 10 to 20 millimeters wide with delicate ray florets that extend well beyond the green or rosy-purple involucre. Growing 20 to 60 centimeters tall with erect stems, it develops long lance-linear to oblanceolate leaves that are mostly glabrous and slightly glaucous. Its leaves typically measure 10 to 30 centimeters long, with a narrow, long-tapered shape and occasionally weak teeth along the margins. The fruit develops as a fusiform to narrowly conic body with uniform straight ribs, topped by a short beak less than half the length of the seed body.
Habitat: Generally wet, often alkaline or saline meadows, stream and lake margins, seeps, generally silty or clay soils
Bloom period: Jun-Aug
Elevation: 1400-2500 m
Bioregions: SN (rare c&s SNH), GB
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