Palafoxia arida

Desert palafox

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Desert palafox is a California native perennial found in desert regions in arid habitats at low elevations. Flowering from summer to fall, this plant produces white to pink flowers with delicate, radiant heads and pink to purple anthers. Growing with much-branched, generally erect stems that can reach 12 centimeters tall, it forms a compact and intricate structure. Its leaves are linear to lance-linear, measuring 2 to 12 centimeters long with petioles 5 to 15 millimeters in length. The fruit is 10 to 15 millimeters long, covered in strigose hairs with a distinctive pappus of varying scale lengths.

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