Logfia gallica

Daggerleaf cottonrose, Daggerleaf Cottonrose

Family: Asteraceae · Type: annual · Not Native

Daggerleaf cottonrose is a naturalized annual found in northwestern California, the California Roasted Flats, Sierra Nevada foothills, western Sierra Nevada, Central Valley, central western, and southwestern California in bare or grassy openings at elevations below 1,100 meters. Flowering from March to July, this plant produces small whitish flowers in compact, flask-shaped clusters 3 to 4.5 millimeters wide. Growing with multiple forked stems 2 to 50 centimeters tall, it has a grayish to green appearance with a cobwebby texture. Its leaves are distinctively stiff and awl-shaped, with the largest leaves measuring 20 to 30 millimeters long and only 1 to 1.5 millimeters wide, tapering to acute or nearly spiny tips. The plant's intricate structure includes 3 to 10 heads at stem forks and tips, with phyllaries that are translucent and obovate.

Habitat: Bare or grassy openings, burns

Bloom period: Mar-Jul

Elevation: < 1100 m

Bioregions: NW (exc NCoRH), CaRF, SNF, w SNH, GV, CW, SW

California counties: San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Los Angeles, Contra Costa, Kern, Tulare, Riverside, San Bernardino, Marin, Fresno, Monterey, Alameda, Amador, El Dorado, Humboldt, Lake, Madera, Mariposa, Placer, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Santa Cruz, Shasta, Solano, Stanislaus, Yuba, Butte, Calaveras, Merced, Mendocino, Napa, Nevada, San Benito, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Sonoma, Sutter, Tuolumne, Ventura, Tehama, Glenn, Colusa, Trinity, Orange, Yolo

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