Hazardia whitneyi

Whitney's goldenbush, Whitney's Goldenbush

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Whitney's goldenbush is a California native perennial subshrub found in rocky areas at elevations of 200 to 1,500 meters. Flowering from August to October, this plant produces yellow flowers in radiate heads 8 to 12 millimeters wide with ray flowers 5 to 8 millimeters long. Growing with erect stems 20 to 50 centimeters tall that are glabrous to slightly glandular-hairy, it forms a compact subshrub structure. Its leaves are widely oblong to oblanceolate, 25 to 50 millimeters long with acute tips and serrated edges. The fruit is 5 to 10 millimeters long with distinctive 5-angled surfaces.

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