Bahiopsis reticulata

Death valley goldeneye, Death Valley Goldeneye

Family: Asteraceae · Type: shrub · Native

Death valley goldeneye is a California native shrub found in the Mojave Desert on arid slopes at elevations below 1,500 meters. Flowering from February to June and September to October, this plant produces bright yellow flowers in small clusters with ray flowers 7 to 15 millimeters long. Growing with multiple soft-hairy stems 5 to 15 decimeters tall, it develops bark that peels with age and forms a plant up to 1.5 meters in diameter. Its leaves are distinctively textured, with proximal leaves opposite and distal leaves alternate, having ovate blades 2 to 9 centimeters long that are densely canescent-tomentose on the upper surface and gray-green and loosely tomentose on the lower surface. The fruit is an obovate seed 2.5 to 4 millimeters long with long and short pappus scales.

Habitat: Arid slopes

Bloom period: Feb-Jun, Sep--Oct

Elevation: < 1500 m

Bioregions: DMoj

California counties: Inyo, San Bernardino

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