Deinandra paniculata

Paniculate tarplant

Family: Asteraceae · Type: annual · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.2

Paniculate tarplant is a California native annual found in southern coastal and transverse ranges including Santa Ynez Mountains and Peninsular Ranges in grasslands, open chaparral, and woodland areas at elevations below 1,320 meters. Flowering from May to November, this plant produces deep yellow ray flowers 3 to 7.5 millimeters long with distinctive dark purple to red anthers in open, panicle-like clusters. Growing 1 to 8 decimeters tall with bristly, coarse-hairy stems that can occasionally reach 15 decimeters, it spreads in open disturbed areas and sandy soils. Its lower leaves are pinnately lobed or toothed, sometimes with stalked glandular hairs, with basal leaves occasionally persisting in southern coastal regions. The flower heads feature 8 to 14 disk flowers with fringed pappus scales often as long as half the corolla length.

Habitat: Grassland, open chaparral and woodland, disturbed areas, often in sandy soils

Bloom period: May-Nov

Elevation: < 1320 m

Bioregions: s CCo/SCoRO, s SCoRO, SCo, WTR (e Santa Ynez Mtns), PR

California counties: Orange, San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Alameda, Ventura

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