Eriophyllum congdonii

Congdon's woolly sunflower

Family: Asteraceae · Type: annual · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 1B.2

Congdon's woolly sunflower is a rare (CNPS 1B.2) California native annual found in central Sierra Nevada foothill woodland in Mariposa County at elevations of 500 to 1,900 meters. Flowering from March to June, this plant produces yellow daisy-like flowers in solitary heads 5 to 8 millimeters wide with 8 to 10 ray flowers. Growing with spreading branches 10 to 30 centimeters tall, it forms a delicate, open structure. Its leaves are oblanceolate, 1 to 4 centimeters long, typically entire or with slight lobing near the tip. The fruit is small, strigose, and 2.5 to 3 millimeters long with unequal pappus scales.

Habitat: Rocky, open, foothill woodland, yellow-pine forest

Bloom period: Mar-Jun

Elevation: 500-1900 m

Bioregions: c SNF (Mariposa Co.).

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