Harmonia nutans

Nodding harmonia

Family: Asteraceae · Type: annual · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.3

Nodding harmonia is a California native annual found in southern North Coast Ranges in rocky, generally volcanic open or disturbed sites in chaparral and woodland at elevations of 100 to 1,000 meters. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces white to yellow flowers in heads that nod while in bud and fruit, with 4 to 8 ray flowers 3 to 7 millimeters long. Growing 5 to 25 centimeters tall with stems where the proximal unbranched part varies in length relative to branches supporting flower heads, it has leaves distributed relatively evenly along the stem. Its phyllaries are coarsely or minutely hairy near folded edges, with 7 to 30 disk flowers forming the flower head. The fruit contains ray fruits without a bowed shape and disk fruits with 9 to 11 lanceolate, long-tapered pappus scales.

Habitat: Rocky, generally volcanic, open or disturbed sites in chaparral and woodland

Bloom period: Apr-Jun

Elevation: 100-1000 m

Bioregions: s NCoR.

California counties: Napa, Sonoma, Lake, Sacramento

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