Hazardia cana

San clemente island hazardia, San Clemente Island Hazardia

Family: Asteraceae · Type: shrub · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 1B.2

San clemente island hazardia is a rare (CNPS 1B.2) California native shrub found in southern Channel Islands in coastal bluffs, canyon walls, and scrub at elevations of 200 to 500 meters. Flowering from June to September, this plant produces white flowers with yellow centers and occasional red-purple tones in heads 5 to 8 millimeters wide. Growing with woolly-tomentose stems 60 to 200 centimeters tall, it forms a distinctive shrubby structure with variable branching. Its leaves are oblanceolate, 4 to 12 centimeters long, thin, and ranging from nearly entire to finely serrate with surfaces becoming increasingly glabrous. The fruit is 3 to 4 millimeters long with 4 distinct ribs and a brown to red-brown pappus.

Habitat: Coastal bluffs, canyon walls, scrub

Bloom period: Jun-Sep

Elevation: 200-500 m

Bioregions: s ChI

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