Senecio fremontii

Dwarf Mountain Ragwort

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Dwarf mountain ragwort is a California native perennial found in mountain regions in alpine and subalpine habitats at elevations up to 3,000 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces yellow ray flowers 8 to 12 millimeters long with distinctive radiate heads. Growing with 10 to 30 centimeters tall stems that are often purple-tinged and spread at the base, it forms small clustered clusters. Its leaves are stiff and fleshy, typically less than 4 centimeters long, with oval to lance-shaped blades that are slightly toothed or nearly smooth-edged. The plant produces compact clusters of flower heads with 35 to 50 disk flowers surrounded by about 8 ray flowers.

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