Heterotheca sessiliflora subsp. bolanderi

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Boland's goldenaster is a California native perennial found in northern coastal California bioregions including central Coast Ranges, northern Coast, and San Francisco Bay area in coastal dunes, headlands, and grassy slopes at elevations below 200 meters. Flowering from June to September, this plant produces yellow flowers in heads with distinctive disk flowers. Growing with sparsely woolly stems up to several dozen centimeters tall, it has an open, spreading growth habit. Its leaves are oblanceolate, green, and covered with soft strigose to long woolly hairs approximately 2 millimeters long, with distal leaves only slightly reduced in size. The plant's sparse woolly texture and delicate yellow flowers make it a characteristic coastal grassland species.

Habitat: Dunes, headlands, grassy coastal slopes

Bloom period: Jun-Sep

Elevation: < 200 m

Bioregions: c&amps NCo, n CCo, SnFrB.

California counties: Alameda, Marin, Mendocino, Nevada, San Mateo, Sonoma, Santa Clara, Contra Costa, Solano, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Humboldt, Yolo

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