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Woolly sunflowers
Eriophyllum
Eriophyllum, commonly known as the woolly sunflower, is a North American genus of plants in the family Asteraceae. The genus is native to western North America (USA, Canada, northwestern Mexico), with a concentration of narrow endemics in California.
Eriophyllum species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Phymatopus californicus.
13 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Golden Yarrow
speciesEriophyllum confertiflorum
common woolly sunflower
speciesEriophyllum lanatum
seaside woolly sunflower
speciesEriophyllum staechadifolium
Wallace's woollydaisy
speciesEriophyllum wallacei
White Easterbonnets
speciesEriophyllum lanosum
Pringle's woolly sunflower
speciesEriophyllum pringlei
Beautiful Woolly Sunflower
speciesEriophyllum ambiguum
many-stem woolly sunflower
speciesEriophyllum multicaule
Barstow woolly sunflower
speciesEriophyllum mohavense
Jepson's woolly sunflower
speciesEriophyllum jepsonii
Congdon's woolly sunflower
speciesEriophyllum congdonii
San Mateo woolly sunflower
speciesEriophyllum latilobum
Yosemite woolly sunflower
speciesEriophyllum nubigenum
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 53396.