Ericameria linearifolia

Interior goldenbush

Family: Asteraceae · Type: shrub · Native

Interior goldenbush is a California native shrub found in northern and central California regions including the Sierra Nevada foothills, Tehachapi, Sutter Buttes, southern San Joaquin Valley, Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges, Mojave Desert, and western Colorado Desert in dry slopes, valleys, foothill and desert woodland at elevations up to 2,000 meters. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces bright yellow flowers in radiate heads approximately 1 centimeter wide, with 12 to 18 ray flowers. Growing 40 to 150 centimeters tall with glabrous to slightly puberulent resinous stems, it develops an open, spreading form. Its leaves are distinctively narrow and linear, 10 to 55 millimeters long, with an acute tip and gland-dotted base. The fruit is compressed, 4 to 5 millimeters long, covered in dense silky hairs with a white pappus.

Habitat: dry slopes, valleys, foothill and desert woodland, saltbush and creosote-bush scrub

Bloom period: Mar-May

Elevation: < 2000 m

Bioregions: NCoRI, s SNF, Teh, ScV (Sutter Buttes), s SnJV, e CW, TR, PR, DMoj, w DSon

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