Laphamia intricata

Desert rock daisy

Family: Asteraceae · Type: shrub · Native

Desert rock daisy is a California native shrub found in the desert mountains in limestone cliffs and arid canyons at elevations of 800 to 1,700 meters. Flowering from June to November, this plant produces white to cream disk flowers in small heads approximately 5 millimeters long. Growing with compact woody stems 13 to 40 centimeters tall and covered in short rough hairs, it forms a dense subshrub with a woody base. Its leaves are narrow and linear, generally alternate, with blades 3 to 8 millimeters long and less than 1 millimeter wide, having acute or obtuse tips and mostly entire margins. The fruit is 2 to 2.8 millimeters long, with rounded or angled surfaces and coarsely ciliate margins.

Habitat: Limestone cliffs in arid mountains and canyons

Bloom period: Jun-Nov

Elevation: 800-1700 m

Bioregions: DMtns

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