Packera multilobata

Lobeleaf groundsel

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Lobeleaf groundsel is a California native perennial found in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Great Basin, and desert mountains in sagebrush scrub and woodland at elevations of 1,100 to 3,445 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces yellow ray flowers with white to pale yellow disk flowers in heads arranged in flat-topped clusters. Growing with 2 to 4 tall stems that emerge from a weakly branching taproot, it has loosely clustered, glabrous stems that occasionally appear slightly woolly. Its distinctive basal leaves are obovate or fiddle-shaped, pinnately lobed with 3 to 6 pairs of lateral lobes, measuring 4 to 8 centimeters long and tapering at the base with cut or toothed margins. The fruit is small, 2 to 3 millimeters long, and may be glabrous or slightly hairy along its ribs.

Habitat: Abundant. Dry rocky or sandy soils in sagebrush scrub, woodland

Bloom period: May-Jul

Elevation: 1100-3445 m

Bioregions: SNH, GB, DMtns

California counties: San Bernardino, Inyo, Mono, Lassen, Los Angeles, Modoc, Contra Costa

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