Euchiton gymnocephalus

Creeping cudweed

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Not Native

Creeping cudweed is a naturalized perennial herb found in the Klamath Ranges and northern coastal California in woodland openings and roadsides at elevations below 800 meters. Flowering from May to October, this plant produces small white to tawny flower heads in clusters 10 to 20 millimeters wide with rounded phyllary tips. Growing with fibrous roots and leafy stolons that root at the nodes, it forms spreading stems 5 to 40 centimeters tall that are simple or branched. Its leaves are distinctive, with basal rosettes having oblanceolate to spoon-shaped blades 2 to 10 centimeters long, while cauline leaves are narrow and linear, 1 to 2 centimeters long and 1 to 2 millimeters wide. The plant produces small flower clusters with 40 to 60 pistillate flowers and 3 to 5 disk flowers.

Habitat: Openings in woodland, roadsides

Bloom period: May-Oct

Elevation: < 800 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoRO

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