Lessingia glandulifera

Valley lessingia

Family: Asteraceae · Type: annual · Native

Valley lessingia is a California native annual found in grassland and open woodland habitats. Flowering from July to October, this plant produces yellow flowers in heads 4 to 7 millimeters long with green, glandular phyllaries. Growing with erect tan stems 5 to 40 centimeters tall that are puberulent and sometimes sparsely hairy, it develops distinctive leaves ranging from oblong to oblanceolate with margins featuring bead-like sessile glands. Its leaves vary from entire to occasionally toothed or pinnately lobed, becoming smaller and awl-shaped toward the stem's upper portions. The fruit is 1.5 to 3.5 millimeters long with a white to tan pappus.

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