Packera bernardina

San bernardino ragwort, San Bernardino Ragwort

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 1B.2

San bernardino ragwort is a rare (CNPS 1B.2) California native perennial found in the eastern San Bernardino Mountains on dry rocky slopes and pine forest duff at elevations of 1,700 to 2,200 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces white ray flowers with yellow disk centers in compact clusters 2 to 8 heads long, each head 8 to 10 millimeters wide. Growing with woolly-tomentose stems 15 to 40 centimeters tall, it emerges from a branched, fibrous-rooted caudex. Its basal leaves are widely spoon-shaped to obovate, 1 to 2.5 centimeters long, with entire or slightly toothed edges near the tip, initially woolly-tomentose and becoming nearly glabrous with age. The fruit is small, 0.7 to 1 millimeter long, with occasional sharp bristles along its ribs.

Habitat: dry rocky slopes, duff of pine forest

Bloom period: May-Jul

Elevation: 1700-2200 m

Bioregions: e SnBr.

California counties: San Bernardino, Del Norte

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