Pseudobahia heermannii

Pseudobahia heermannii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Pseudobahia
Species: P. heermannii
Binomial name
Pseudobahia heermannii
(Durand) Rydb.

Pseudobahia heermannii is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common names foothill sunburst[1] and brittlestem.

It is endemic to California, where it occurs in grassland, chaparral, woodlands, and other habitat in the Sierra Nevada foothills and a section of the Central Coast Ranges.

It is an annual herb growing 10 to 30 centimeters tall with a pale green to reddish woolly or cobwebby stem. The leaves are divided into several narrow, toothed lobes. The inflorescence is a solitary flower head with a small, hard, cuplike involucre of about 8 fused phyllaries. From the involucre bloom about 8 golden ray florets around a center of hairless disc florets.

References

  1. "Pseudobahia heermannii". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 15 October 2015.


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