Packera cana

Woolly groundsel

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Woolly groundsel is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, California Ranges, Sierra Nevada, and Great Basin in sagebrush scrub and rocky slopes at elevations of 1,200 to 3,500 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces yellow ray flowers in heads 8 to 15 millimeters wide, arranged in flat-topped clusters. Growing with densely woolly stems 10 to 30 centimeters tall emerging from a thick, branched caudex, it forms distinctive rosettes. Its basal leaves are broadly ovate to lanceolate, 2.5 to 5 centimeters long, with persistently woolly undersides and edges that are entire or slightly wavy. The fruit is 2.5 to 3.5 millimeters long and glabrous.

Habitat: Locally abundant. Sagebrush scrub, rocky slopes, crevices

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: 1200-3500 m

Bioregions: KR, CaR, SN, GB

California counties: Inyo, Mono, Tulare, Alpine, Modoc, Lassen, Nevada, Siskiyou, Fresno, Shasta, Madera, Tuolumne, Sierra, Mariposa, Plumas, El Dorado, Trinity, Placer, 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.