Packera bolanderi var. bolanderi

Seacoast ragwort, Seacoast Ragwort

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 2B.2

Seacoast ragwort is a rare (CNPS 2B.2) California native perennial found in the North Coast bioregion in coastal forest and wet cliff habitats at elevations below 300 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces white ray flowers 10 to 15 millimeters long in flat-topped clusters of 8 to 15 flower heads. Growing 20 to 50 centimeters tall with 1 to 3 loosely clustered glabrous stems from a creeping fibrous-rooted caudex, it has a distinctive growth habit. Its basal leaves are round to oblong, 5 to 12 centimeters long, with 1 to 3 pairs of pinnately arranged lateral lobes that are shallowly to deeply incised with rounded sinuses. The flower heads feature both ray and disk flowers, with 8 to 13 ray flowers and 30 to 45 disk flowers surrounded by 13 or 21 phyllaries with brown multicelled hairs.

Habitat: Coastal forest, wet cliffs

Bloom period: May-Jul

Elevation: < 300 m

Bioregions: NCo

California counties: Del Norte, Mendocino, Humboldt

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