Eriophyllum lanosum

White easter bonnets

Family: Asteraceae · Type: annual · Native

White easter bonnets is a California native annual found in desert regions at elevations of 70 to 1,400 meters. Flowering from February to May, this plant produces white flowers occasionally red-veined, with ray flowers 3 to 7 millimeters long arranged in solitary heads. Growing with decumbent to ascending stems 1 to 15 centimeters tall, often tinged reddish and sparsely woolly. Its leaves are linear to oblanceolate, 5 to 20 millimeters long, with entire margins or occasionally lobed at the tip. The fruit is 2.5 to 4.5 millimeters long, linear or narrowly club-shaped.

Habitat: Desert scrub

Bloom period: Feb-May

Elevation: 70-1400 m

Bioregions: D

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