Eriophyllum staechadifolium

Seaside woolly sunflower, Seaside Woolly Sunflower

Family: Asteraceae · Type: shrub · Native

Seaside woolly sunflower is a California native shrub found in northern coastal, central coastal, and northern Channel Islands bioregions in coastal dunes, sea bluffs, and coastal scrub at elevations below 100 meters. Flowering from April to September, this plant produces yellow daisy-like flower heads with 6 to 9 ray flowers 3 to 5 millimeters long. Growing 3 to 15 decimeters tall with much-branched stems that become glabrous with age, it develops an open, spreading form. Its leaves are 3 to 7 centimeters long, lanceolate to ovate, with margins rolled under and ranging from entire to slightly pinnately compound. The fruit is 3 to 4 millimeters long, linear-oblong, and slightly glandular and bristly.

Habitat: Dunes, sea bluffs, coastal scrub

Bloom period: Apr-Sep

Elevation: < 100 m

Bioregions: NCo, CCo, n ChI

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