Hulsea algida
High mountain hulsea
Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native
High mountain hulsea is a California native perennial found in the northern Sierra Nevada and central Sierra Nevada Mountains, the White and Inyo Mountains in subalpine to alpine talus habitats at elevations of 3,000 to 4,000 meters. Flowering from July to August, this plant produces yellow ray flowers with broad petals 2 to 4 millimeters wide in single or occasionally double flower heads. Growing 20 to 40 centimeters tall with long soft and somewhat glandular stems, it forms a clustered perennial herb with distinctive growth. Its basal leaves are less than 10 centimeters long and coarsely toothed, with a few smaller cauline leaves ascending along the stem. The flower heads are broadly shaped, 10 to 25 millimeters in diameter, with narrowly oblong phyllaries that taper to a point.
Habitat: Subalpine to alpine talus
Bloom period: Jul-Aug
Elevation: 3000-4000 m
Bioregions: SNH, n SNE, W&I
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