Eriogonum pusillum

Yellow turbans

Family: Polygonaceae · Type: annual · Native

Yellow turbans is a California native annual found in southern Sierra Nevada Foothills, southern Sierra Nevada, Tehachapi, southern Coast Ranges, Transverse Ranges, eastern Peninsular Ranges, Great Basin, and Desert regions in sandy habitats at elevations from 70 to 2,600 meters. Flowering from February to August, this plant produces yellow to red-yellow flowers in delicate clusters. Growing with slender stems up to 30 centimeters tall, the plant forms low, compact clusters with thin, glabrous branches. Its basal leaves are round to oblong-ovate, 5 to 25 millimeters long, with soft, woolly undersides and sparse hairs on top surfaces. The tiny fruits are generally elliptic and measure less than one millimeter long.

Habitat: Common. Sand

Bloom period: Feb-Aug

Elevation: -70-2600 m

Bioregions: s SNF, s SNH, Teh, SCoRI, TR, PR (e edge), GB, D

California counties: Kern, San Bernardino, Inyo, Riverside, Los Angeles, Mono, Imperial, Modoc, Tulare, Ventura, San Benito, Lassen, San Diego, Santa Barbara

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