Laphamia megalocephala

Family: Asteraceae · Type: shrub · Native

Laphamia megalocephala is a California native shrub found in desert regions at elevations between 100 to 1,500 meters. Flowering from spring to summer, this plant produces small discoid flower heads clustered in loose arrangements, without ray flowers. Growing with multiple much-branched stems 15 to 90 centimeters tall and emerging from a woody base, it has a dense, short-rough-hairy appearance. Its leaves are generally alternate, measuring 7 to 15 millimeters long and 1 to 10 millimeters wide, ranging from elliptic to widely ovate with entire or slightly serrated margins. The fruits are small, 2.5 to 3 millimeters long, with rounded or slightly angled surfaces covered in fine puberulent hairs.

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