Bahiopsis parishii

Parish's goldeneye, Parish's Goldeneye

Family: Asteraceae · Type: shrub · Native

Parish's goldeneye is a California native shrub found in eastern Peninsular Range and Desert bioregions in washes and dry, rocky slopes at elevations below 1,500 meters. Flowering from February to June and September to October, this plant produces yellow ray flowers with distinctive disk centers in heads 10 to 13 millimeters wide. Growing as a compact shrub up to 2 meters in diameter with much-branched stems 60 to 130 centimeters tall, it is covered in short, rough hairs throughout. Its leaves are triangular-ovate, 10 to 35 millimeters long, with proximal leaves opposite and distal leaves alternate, featuring entire or occasionally few-toothed margins. The fruit is 2.7 to 3.8 millimeters long with pappus scales 2 to 3 millimeters in length.

Habitat: Common. Washes, dry, rocky slopes

Bloom period: Feb-Jun, Sep--Oct

Elevation: < 1500 m

Bioregions: e PR, D

California counties: San Bernardino, Imperial, Riverside, San Diego, Los Angeles

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