Doellingeria breweri

Brewer's aster

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Brewer's aster is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, high Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada, and San Bernardino Mountains in subalpine meadows and open woodland at elevations of 1,200 to 3,200 meters. Flowering from July to September, this plant produces white flowers in discoid heads arranged in cyme-like clusters. Growing with stems 10 to 100 centimeters tall that are slightly glandular or woolly-hairy, it has an upright, open growth habit. Its leaves range from lance-linear to ovate, 2 to 5 centimeters long, with smooth to slightly toothed edges and surfaces that are nearly smooth to glandular-hairy. The fruit has a distinctive pappus of bristles more than 5 millimeters long.

Habitat: Subalpine meadows, open woodland

Bloom period: Jul-Sep

Elevation: 1200-3200 m

Bioregions: KR, CaRH, SNH, SnBr.

California counties: Tuolumne, Lassen, Butte, Fresno, Tulare, Inyo, El Dorado, Mono, Alpine, Amador, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sierra, Del Norte, Kern, Madera, Mariposa, Shasta, Tehama, Siskiyou, Calaveras

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