Eastwoodia elegans

Eastwoodia

Family: Asteraceae · Type: shrub · Native

Eastwoodia is a California native shrub found in southern Sierra Nevada Foothills, Tehachapi, southern San Joaquin Valley, southeastern San Francisco Bay, southern Coast Ranges, and Western Transverse Ranges in arid hillsides, brushy slopes, and juniper woodland at elevations of 60 to 1,300 meters. Flowering from April to July, this plant produces yellow flowers in small, spheric heads with green or whitish phyllaries. Growing as a rounded shrub up to 1 meter tall with yellow to tan new growth and gray-white bark that shreds with age, it develops an elegant, compact form. Its leaves are narrow and linear, alternately arranged and less than 4 centimeters long, with a delicate, entire margin. The fruit is small, narrowly obconic, and covered in fine hairs, topped with lance-linear scales that are longer than the fruit itself.

Habitat: Banks, arid hillsides, brushy slopes, juniper woodland

Bloom period: Apr-Jul

Elevation: 60-1300 m

Bioregions: s SNF, Teh, s SnJV, se SnFrB, SCoR, WTR.

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