Erigeron inornatus

Western rayless fleabane, Western Rayless Fleabane

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Western rayless fleabane is a California native perennial found in dry, rocky habitats at elevations of 100 to 2,000 meters. Flowering from April to July, this plant produces small whitish to pale greenish flower heads without ray flowers, forming compact clusters. Growing with decumbent to ascending stems 10 to 90 centimeters tall, it develops from a woody taproot with branches near the stem tips. Its leaves are linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 1 to 6 centimeters long, with ciliate edges and surfaces that range from glabrous to sparsely hairy. The plant forms distinctive discoid flower heads 7 to 12 millimeters in diameter, with graduated involucral phyllaries that are generally glabrous.

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