Trichoptilium incisum

Yellow head

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Yellow head is a California native perennial found in the Desert bioregion on dry slopes, plains, and creosote-bush scrub at elevations below 1,500 meters. Flowering from January to May and October to December, this plant produces yellow flowers in heads 6 to 12 millimeters wide, sometimes with pink-tinged outer flowers. Growing with 1 to several stems from the base, reaching 5 to 25 centimeters tall and generally covered in dense woolly hairs. Its leaves are mostly clustered in the lower half of the plant, oblanceolate to spoon-shaped, 1 to 3 centimeters long, with sharply toothed edges and covered in dense tomentose hairs. The fruit is 2 to 3 millimeters long, topped with five scales that split into multiple fine bristles.

Habitat: dry slopes, plains, creosote-bush scrub

Bloom period: Jan-May, Oct--Dec

Elevation: < 1500 m

Bioregions: D

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