Wyethia helenioides
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| (unranked): | Angiosperms
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| Species: | W. helenioides
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| Wyethia helenioides | |
Wyethia helenioides is a species of flowering plants in the sunflower family[2] commonly referred to as gray mule's ears or whitehead mule-ears.
Distribution[]
This species occurs chiefly in the California Coast Ranges, Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges, and some areas of the Sierra Nevada foothills in California.
Description[]
Wyethia helenioides is a short, low growing golden-rayed wildflower, that resemble sunflowers. Typical understory associates in sunny clearings of mixed oak forests in coastal California include Mimulus aurantiacus and Calochortus luteus.[3]
Notes[]
- ^ "Wyethia helenioides". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- ^ Jepson Manual. 1993
- ^ C. Michael Hogan. 2008
References[]
- C. Michael Hogan. 2008 Blue Oak: Quercus douglasii, GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. N. Stromberg
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- Wyethia
- Flora of California
- Flora of the Sierra Nevada (U.S.)
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