Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria

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Enceliopsis covillei is a rare species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common name Panamint daisy. It is endemic to Inyo County, California, where it is known only from the rocky slopes of the western Panamint Range. This is a perennial herb with erect stems varying in height from 15 centimeters to over a meter, growing from a tough, woody caudex. The silvery woolly leaves are up to 10 centimeters long by 8 wide and are spade-shaped to oval to diamond-shaped with winged petioles. The flower cluster is a large solitary flower head on an erect or leaning peduncle which may reach a meter tall. The flower head has a base made up of three layers of pointed phyllaries coated in gray or silvery hairs. The head has a fringe of many yellow ray florets each up to 5 centimeters long. The fruit is an achene about a centimeter long with a small pappus.

Plant type

Perennial herb

Size

6 - 31 in Tall

Sun

Full Sun

Propagation

For propagating by seed: No treatment.

Site type

Slopes, canyons

Plant communities

Creosote Bush Scrub