Chaenactis nevadensis

Chaenactis nevadensis
Chaenactis nevadensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Heliantheae
Genus: Chaenactis
Species: C. nevadensis
Binomial name
Chaenactis nevadensis
(Kellogg) A.Gray

Chaenactis nevadensis, with the common name Nevada dustymaiden, is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family.

Distribution

It is native to the high mountains of north eastern California, including the Klamath Mountains and southernmost Cascade Range, and the Sierra Nevada, where its range extends just into Nevada. It grows in sandy or gravelly soils in subalpine habitats.

Description

This is a perennial herb growing several short stems just a few centimeters high surrounded by a basal rosette of small, woolly, multilobed leaves. The inflorescence arises on a short peduncle. Each flower head is lined with rigid, blunt-tipped, glandular phyllaries. The flower head contains several white or pink flowers with long, protruding anthers. The fruit is an achene with a pappus of scales.

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