Tidestromia lanuginosa

Woolly tidestromia

Family: Amaranthaceae · Type: annual · Native

Woolly tidestromia is a California native annual found in the eastern Desert Mountains, specifically the Granite Mountains, on gravelly to sandy slopes at around 1,200 meters elevation. Flowering from July to October, this plant produces yellow flowers in small clusters of one to three blossoms. Growing with prostrate to ascending stems 10 to 50 centimeters long that are densely covered in white woolly hairs, giving the plant a soft grayish appearance. Its leaves are gray-green, broadly oval, measuring 6 to 32 millimeters long and 9 to 30 millimeters wide. The fruit is small, measuring 1.3 to 1.5 millimeters in length.

Habitat: Slopes, gravelly to sandy soils

Bloom period: Jul-Oct

Elevation: +- 1200 m.

Bioregions: e DMtns (Granite Mtns)

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