Corethrogyne filaginifolia

Common sandaster

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Common sandaster is a California native perennial found in northern coastal, Klamath, central Sierra Nevada, Tehachapi, central western, southwestern, and western desert mountain regions in coastal scrub, chaparral, grassland, foothill woodland, and forest at elevations below 2,600 meters. Flowering from July to November, this plant produces white to pink or purple ray flowers with yellow disk centers in heads 6 to 14 millimeters wide. Growing 10 to 100 centimeters tall with multiple stems that are decumbent to ascending, densely white-tomentose and sometimes branching distally. Its leaves are alternate, linear to oblanceolate, 10 to 70 millimeters long, ranging from entire to toothed and often hairy. The fruit is a cylindric structure 2 to 5 millimeters long with 5 to 7 ribs, topped by a persistent pappus of 35 to 65 unequal, coarse bristles.

Habitat: Coastal scrub, chaparral, grassland, foothill woodland, forest

Bloom period: Jul-Nov

Elevation: < 2600 m

Bioregions: NCo, KR, NCoRO, c&amps SN, Teh, CW, SW, w DMoj

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.