Wyethia elata

Hall's wyethia, Hall's Wyethia

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.3

Hall's wyethia is a California native perennial found in central Sierra Nevada Mountains in open woodland and forest at elevations of 500 to 1,400 meters. Flowering from May to August, this plant produces yellow ray flowers 50 to 60 millimeters long with distinctive yellow disk centers. Growing with erect, generally branched stems 50 to 100 centimeters tall that are densely soft-hairy, it forms an impressive meadow or woodland perennial. Its leaves are lance-ovate to triangular-ovate, 8 to 20 centimeters long, with a base that is obtuse to heart-shaped and covered in short soft hairs. The distinctive flower heads are hemispheric, with 10 to 14 ray flowers and phyllaries 25 to 35 millimeters long that are lanceolate to ovate in shape.

Habitat: Open woodland, forest

Bloom period: May-Aug(Oct)

Elevation: 500-1400 m

Bioregions: c SN.

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