WILD FLOWERS OF CALIFORNIA 



81 



956. 



957. 



958. 



959. 



960. 



Hulsea algida 



Hulsea nana and var. 



Hnlsea vestita and vars. 



Hnlsea Californica 



Hulsea heterochroma 



961. 



Rigiopappus leptocladus 



962. 



Palafoxia linearis 



963. 



CHAENACTIS 



Tahoe region and else- 

 where — on rocks about 

 10,000 feet. Strong roots, 

 gummy herbage which is 

 strong-scented. 



Patches in volcanic soil. 

 Heads yellow, solitary 

 from rootstocks. leafage 

 scanty and incised. Sticky. 

 High mountains of east- 

 ern Sierras. 



Leaves white-woolly when 

 young. From lower alti- 

 tudes beneath pines to the 

 highest peaks, in its dif- 

 ferent varieties. In loose 

 gravelly soil. 



Floccose-woolly in bushy 

 places, mountains of 

 so uthern San Diego 

 County. 



On granite soil. Xo woolly 

 pubescence. Disk tipped 

 with purple when old. 

 Aliddle altitudes, Sierras. 

 To be looked for also in 

 Coast Ranges of Monte- 

 rey County. Rare. 



A plant of wide distribution 

 and abundant, extending 

 from the north Coast 

 Ranges to the sagebrush 

 country over the moun- 

 tains. Annual with very 

 narrow leaves, and small 

 heads of yellow flowers. 



Rough branched annual or 

 perennial 1 to 3 feet high 

 with linear leaves and 

 narrow heads of rose-col- 

 ored flowers. Colorado 

 Desert eastward. Weedy 

 tendencies. 



Annuals or low perennials with pinnately-parted, dissected, or more rarely 

 entire leaves. Flowers yellow, white or purple tinged. Nnumerous forms, the same 

 specie sometimes ascending from low to very high elevations, gradually becoming 

 shorter, the flowers not changing in character. Some one or other of the species 

 is frequently met with in the Sierras. About twenty species chiefly in the moun- 

 tains and deserts. Jepson describes four in western middle California and Hall 

 nine in southern California with numerous varieties and forms. 



SNEEZEWEED 



HELENIUM 



Erect perennials with resinous-dotted foliage. Heads solitary or several. 

 Flowers yellow. Wet places, general. Medicinal. 



964. Rosilla 



965. Bigelow's Sneeze- 



weed 



Helenium puberulum 

 Helenium Bigelovii 



