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 Flower Willow Dells TrSue Smith |  Leaves Willow Dells TrSue Smith |  Leaves Willow Dells TrSue Smith |  Plant - summer Willow Dells TrSue Smith |  Plant - summer Willow Dells TrSue Smith | |
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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Perennial
General Desc:
Small clumping plant with many small flower heads of white ray flowers and yellow discs. Stems from a woody caudex, numerous, much-branched, more-or-less hairy, sometimes glandular. Ericoides means heath-like and refers to the plants leaves.
Identification notes: Woody based rhizomatous perennial up to 4 inches, stems highly branched with appressed hairs. Leaves alternate, linear and glandular hairy. Flowers have white to pinkish ray petals around yellow disc flowers, base of pointed purple-tipped greenish bracts.
Height:
To 4 inches
Habitat Description: Open dry sites up to pinyon-juniper woodlands.
Plant Communities:
Desert Scrub, Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland
Elevation: 3000 - 7500 feet
Color:
White ray flowers, yellow disc flowers
Shape:
Daisy or dandelion-like in round clusters
Tubular:
N
Flowering Period:
Mar - Oct
Description:
White ray petals and yellow projecting disc flowers to 5/8 inch wide are found on the tips of branches. In the early afternoon, the ray flower petals start to curl downward. Flower heads solitary on numerous slender branches.
Leaf Color:
Grayish-green
Leaf Type:
Simple
Leaf Shape:
Narrow
Leaf Margin:
Smooth
Leaf Attachment:
Alternate
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
Leaves and stems
Spines:
Y
Leaf Description:
Short, narrow heath-like leaves, sessile, more or less appressed and overlapping along stem, blades narrow with smooth margins and apices spine-like. Stems hairy and can be sticky.
Fruit Color: Brown
Fruit Type: Achene
Fruit Notes: Small, flattened, hairy fruit is tipped with numerous minute, white, barbed bristles. The fruit contains one small seed.
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