Psilostrophe cooperi

Cooper's paper daisy

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Cooper's paper daisy is a California native perennial found in eastern Mojave Desert and northern Colorado Desert bioregions in dry slopes, washes, desert scrub, and woodland at elevations of 150 to 1,950 meters. Flowering from March to July and October to January, this plant produces white to yellow flowers in heads 3 to 5 millimeters wide with 3 to 6 ray flowers up to 20 millimeters long. Growing with densely white-woolly stems 20 to 90 centimeters tall that are openly branched, it develops an open, spreading habit. Its linear leaves are 1 to 8 centimeters long, initially white-woolly and potentially becoming smoother with age. The fruit is 2 to 3 millimeters long with small pappus scales.

Habitat: dry slopes, washes, desert scrub and woodland

Bloom period: Mar-Jul, Oct--Jan

Elevation: 150-1950 m

Bioregions: e DMoj, n DSon

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