Tribe Heliantheae Higher classification Daisy family | Scientific name Eriophyllum Rank Genus | |
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Lower classifications Eriophyllum lanatum, Eriophyllum confertiflorum, Eriophyllum latilobum, Eriophyllum pringlei, Eriophyllum ambiguum | ||
M cor plant id walk with gordon pratt eriophyllum confertiflorum golden yarrow
Eriophyllum, commonly known as the woolly sunflower, is a North American genus of plants in the sunflower family. The genus is native to western North America (USA, Canada, northwestern Mexico), with a concentration of narrow endemics in California.
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- M cor plant id walk with gordon pratt eriophyllum confertiflorum golden yarrow
- Eriophyllum garden plants
- Description
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Eriophyllum species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Phymatopus californicus.
Eriophyllum garden plants
Description
Eriophyllum is an annual or perennial shrub or subshrub, some species growing to a height of 200 cm (6.7 feet). Leaves present generally alternate and entire to nearly compound, with woolly hairs on some of the species. The inflorescence contains numerous yellow flower heads in flat-topped clusters. The involucre structure is obconic to hemispheric. Phyllaries are either free or more or less fused; the receptacle presents typically flat, but naked. The ray flowers are present in some species but not in others. Fruits are angled in the outer flowers, but are generally club-shaped for the inner flowers; the pappus is somewhat jagged.
