Agoseris parviflora
False dandelion
Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native
False dandelion is a California native perennial found in the northern Sierra Nevada, Great Basin, and eastern high Sierra Nevada in dry sagebrush scrub, open pine woodland, and meadows at elevations of 1,400 to 2,400 meters. Flowering from April to August, this plant produces yellow flowers with ligules 10 to 20 millimeters long, exceeding the rosy-purple and green involucre. Growing 5 to 25 centimeters tall with erect to decumbent stems, it has a distinctive appearance with purplish petioles. Its leaves are 10 to 20 centimeters long, lanceolate with 5 to 8 pairs of narrow lobes, appearing glaucous and glabrous or with white-opaque hairs. The fruit has a fusiform body 5 to 9 millimeters long with a slender beak 3 to 10 millimeters in length.
Habitat: Generally dry, open sagebrush scrub, open pine woodland, meadows
Bloom period: Apr-Aug
Elevation: generally 1400-2400(3400) m
Bioregions: CaRH/GB, n&c SNH, GB
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