Hazardia stenolepis

Narrow scaled goldenbush

Family: Asteraceae · Type: shrub · Native

Narrow scaled goldenbush is a California native shrub found in southern Coastal Ranges in serpentine or shale grasslands, open woodlands, and scrub at elevations of 150 to 1,200 meters. Flowering from September to November, this plant produces yellow disk flowers in compact heads approximately 3 to 6 millimeters wide. Growing 30 to 100 centimeters tall with scabrous stems, it develops a distinctive shrubby form. Its leaves are leathery and oblong to obovate, 15 to 25 millimeters long, with toothed edges and an abruptly pointed tip. The fruit is 5 to 8 millimeters long, five-angled, and topped with a red-brown pappus 7 to 12 millimeters in length.

Habitat: Serpentine or shale, grassland, open woodland, scrub

Bloom period: Sep-Nov

Elevation: 150-1200 m

Bioregions: SCoR.

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