Plant Name
Scientific Name: Antheropeas lanosum
Synonym: Eriophyllum lanosum
Common Names: White Easterbonnets, White Easter Bonnets, Woolly Daisy
Plant Characteristics
Duration: Annual
Growth Habit: Herb/Forb
Arizona Native Status: Native
Habitat: Desert
Flower Color: White rays and yellow disks
Flowering Season: Spring
Height: To only 1.5 inches (4 cm) tall
Description: The flower heads have yellow disks and 8 to 10 broad, white, notched or blunt-tipped rays. The leaves are grayish, linear, and they hug the upright stems. The plants are tiny and wrapped in fine, white wool. In years with sufficient winter rains, these tiny plants can carpet patches of the ground.
The similar Mojave Desertstar (Monoptilon bellioides) has flowers with more numerous, longer, thinner, round-tipped rays and a relatively smaller central disk.
Classification
Kingdom: Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision: Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division: Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class: Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass: Asteridae
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae – Aster family
Genus: Antheropeas Rydb. – easterbonnets
Species: Antheropeas lanosum (A. Gray) Rydb. – white easterbonnets
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