Pyrrocoma uniflora var. gossypina

Bear valley pyrrocoma, Bear Valley Pyrrocoma

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 1B.2

Bear valley pyrrocoma is a rare (CNPS 1B.2) California native perennial found in the San Bernardino Mountains near Baldwin Lake in meadows, seeps, and stony slopes at elevations of 1,600 to 2,300 meters. Flowering from July to September, this plant produces yellow flowers in large involucres 10 to 13 centimeters wide with unequal phyllaries. Growing with woolly-tufted herbage, it forms distinctive compact clusters with soft, dense white-woolly stems. Its leaves are covered in a dense, cotton-like woolly texture that gives the plant a distinctive silvery-white appearance. The plant's unique woolly growth and high-elevation habitat make it a remarkable specimen of the mountain flora of the San Bernardino region.

Habitat: Meadows and seeps, stony slopes

Bloom period: Jul-Sep

Elevation: 1600-2300 m

Bioregions: SnBr (near Baldwin Lake).

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