Monolopia lanceolata

Common hillside daisy, Common Hillside Daisy

Family: Asteraceae · Type: annual · Native

Common hillside daisy is a California native annual found in southern Sierra Nevada foothills, Tehachapi, San Joaquin Valley, south Coast Ranges, central coastal Southern California, western Transverse Ranges, San Gabriel Mountains, northwestern Peninsular Ranges, and western edge of Mojave Desert in grasslands, clay soils, open chaparral, and woodland at elevations of 50 to 1,600 meters. Flowering from February to June, this plant produces white to yellow ray flowers 10 to 20 millimeters long with three-lobed tips, arranged in radiate heads with distinctive involucres 6 to 10 millimeters wide. Growing with erect stems that are simple or branched throughout, with ascending branches and heights varying across its range. Its leaves vary across the plant, with stems featuring elliptic-oblanceolate phyllaries that are either free or partially fused. The fruit is a compressed, four-angled disk fruit 2 to 4 millimeters long, covered in strigose hairs.

Habitat: Grassland, bare clay, open chaparral, woodland

Bloom period: Feb-Jun

Elevation: 50-1600 m

Bioregions: s SNF, Teh, SnJV, SCoR, c SCo, WTR, SnGb, nw PR, w edge DMoj.

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