Eriophyllum confertiflorum (Golden Yarrow)

3/23/19 Harford Springs Reserve, Gavilan Hills, Riverside County, CA

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: Golden Yarrow

SPECIES: Eriophyllum confertiflorum

FAMILY: Asteraceae (Sunflower Family)

LIFE LIST DATE: 3/23/19

LOCATION: Harford Springs Reserve, Gavilan Hills, Riverside County, CA

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Treatment from Jepson eFlora:

NATIVE

Habit: Subshrub or shrub generally 2--7 dm. 

Leaf: 1--5 cm, +- obovate, deeply 3--5-lobed to nearly 2-pinnately compound, rolled under, often becoming +- glabrous adaxially. 

Inflorescence: heads 3--30+; peduncle 0--2.5(9) cm; involucre 3--7 mm, bell-shaped; phyllaries 4--7, obtuse, keeled, strongly overlapping, +- free; receptacle +- convex. 

Ray Flower: (0)4--6(8); ray 2--5 mm. 

Disk Flower: 10--75; corolla 2--4 mm, puberulent to glandular; anther ovate. Fruit: 2--4 mm; pappus generally < 1 mm. 

Note: Highly variable, intergrading polyploid complex; hybridizes with Eriophyllum lanatum. 

Jepson eFlora Author: John S. Mooring & Dale E. Johnson (annual species)