Blepharipappus scaber

Blepharipappus

Family: Asteraceae · Type: annual · Native

Blepharipappus is a California native annual found in the Klamath Ranges, northern high Sierra Nevada, and Modoc Plateau in openings of sagebrush scrub, yellow-pine forest, and juniper woodland at elevations of 300 to 2,300 meters. Flowering from April to September, this plant produces white flowers with purple-veined rays 2 to 11 millimeters long, arranged in small radiate heads 3 to 6 millimeters in diameter. Growing as a slender-branched plant 5 to 20 centimeters tall, it develops delicate stems that are scabrous and glandular toward the tips. Its leaves are narrow and spoon-shaped to linear, mostly 6 to 25 millimeters long, sessile and generally ascending with margins rolled under. The fruit is black, 2 to 3.5 millimeters long, typically covered with white hairs and topped with 12 to 18 fringed or plumose scales.

Habitat: Openings in sagebrush scrub, yellow-pine forest, juniper woodland

Bloom period: Apr-Sep

Elevation: 300-2300 m

Bioregions: KR, CaRH, n SNH, MP

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