Erigeron aphanactis

Rayless shaggy fleabane

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Rayless shaggy fleabane is a California native perennial herb found in rocky and dry habitats at elevations between 500 to 2,000 meters. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces heads with no ray flowers, creating a distinctive disciform appearance with small white to cream-colored disk flowers. Growing densely tufted with stiffly spreading stems 8 to 25 centimeters tall, it forms compact clusters from a short-branched caudex. Its leaves are linear-oblanceolate, measuring 4 to 7 centimeters long, with stiff spreading hairs and gradually reducing in size up the stem. The plant's involucre is 4 to 6 millimeters long, with phyllaries covered in coarse long hairs and minute glandular surfaces.

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