Packera breweri

Brewer's ragwort

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Brewer's ragwort is a California native perennial found in southern Sierra Nevada foothills, Tehachapi, San Joaquin Valley, central western California, and western Transverse Ranges in seasonally damp grasslands and oak savanna at elevations of 200 to 1,500 meters. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces white ray flowers in radiate heads 15 to 50 clustered in flat-topped groups. Growing to 40 to 120 centimeters tall with a single erect stem, it develops from a stout fibrous-rooted caudex. Its distinctive basal leaves are large and spoon-shaped to obovate, measuring 10 to 30 centimeters long with 2 to 6 pairs of smaller lateral lobes and an irregularly crenate or dentate margin. The fruit is 4 to 5 millimeters long and glabrous.

Habitat: Common. Seasonally damp grassland, oak savanna, disturbed areas

Bloom period: Apr-Jun

Elevation: 200-1500 m

Bioregions: s SNF, Teh, SnJV, CW, WTR.

California counties: Kern, Los Angeles, Monterey, San Benito, Tulare, San Luis Obispo, Santa Clara, Plumas, Alameda, San Mateo, Ventura, Contra Costa, Fresno, Merced, Stanislaus, Santa Barbara, Napa, Colusa

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