Grindelia ×paludosa

Suisun gumplant, Suisun Gumplant

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Suisun gumplant is a California native perennial found in the Suisun Marsh delta region in salt marshes and slough banks at elevations below 30 meters. Flowering from July to November, this plant produces yellow flowers in hemispherical heads 10 to 20 millimeters wide with distinctive phyllary tips that can be coiled or reflexed. Growing 80 to 200 centimeters tall with erect, widely branched stems, it forms an upright and open structure. Its leaves are lance-shaped, slightly fleshy, ranging from green to red-green, and can be entire or slightly serrated along the edges. The fruit is approximately 4 millimeters long with a truncate top and 2 to 5 short awns.

Habitat: Salt marshes, banks of sloughs

Bloom period: Jul-Nov

Elevation: < 30 m

Bioregions: Deltaic GV (Suisun).

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