Grindelia camporum

Common gumplant

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Common gumplant is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, Sierra Nevada foothills, Central Valley, San Francisco Bay Area, southern Coast Ranges, southwestern California, Sierra Nevada eastern slopes, and Mojave Desert in sandy or saline bottomlands and roadsides at elevations below 1,400 meters. Flowering from May to November, this plant produces yellow flower heads with bright yellow ray flowers 5 to 11 millimeters long in clusters 10 to 22 millimeters wide. Growing with erect, much-branched stems 60 to 250 centimeters tall, it forms a robust and spreading habit. Its leaves are lanceolate to ovate, sessile and clasping, ranging 2 to 15 centimeters long, often resinous and yellow- to gray-green with entire or slightly serrate edges. The fruit is 2 to 5 millimeters long, white to golden-brown with ridged tops and paired pappus awns.

Habitat: Sandy or saline bottomland, roadsides

Bloom period: May-Nov

Elevation: < 1400 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoR, CaRF, SNF, n SNH, Teh, GV, SnFrB, SCoRO, SW, SNE, DMoj

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