WILD FLOWERS OF CALIFORNIA 



1047. Viper's Grass 



1048. 



Scorzonera Hispanica 



A garden plant. Native of 

 Europe ; naturalized at 

 Knight's Valley, Calis- 

 toga. 



Phalacroseris Bolanderi A glabrous perennial with 



a tuft of lanceolate entire 

 leaves from a thickened 

 dark colored rootstock. 

 Flowers orange yellow. 

 Wet meadows, Yosemite 

 Valley, 7000 to 8000 feet. 



1049. MICROSERIS 



Mostly smooth herbaceous plants with pinnatifid leaves mostly in tufts and 



without stems. Yellow flowers at the ends of long stalks. Solitary heads which 



nod when in bud, becoming erect later. 



1050. 



1051. 



1052. 

 1053. 



1054. 



1055. 



1056. 

 1057. 



1058. 



1059. 



1060. 

 1061. 



1062. 

 1063. 



1064. 



M. attenuata 



M. aphantocarpha and 



vars. 

 M. elegans 

 M. Douglasii 



M. linearifolia 



M. Lindleyi and vars. 



M. montana 

 M. Bigelovii 



M. acuminata 



M. nutans 



M. major 



M. sylvatica and vars. 



M. procera 

 M. Bolanderi 



M. troximoides 



Solano County to Alameda 



County. 

 Napa Valley south. 



Interior Valley. 

 Interior Valley south. 

 Coast and Interior Valley 



and south. 

 Common throughout south- 

 ern California. 

 Middle California and 



south. 

 Tehachapi region. 

 Sandy lands coast. San 



Francisco north. 

 North Coast Ranges and 



Sierra foothills. 

 Sierras. Root said to be 



eaten raw by the Indians. 

 Long Valley, Mendocino Co. 

 Wooded hills or low ground 



of Interior Valley. 

 North Coast Ranges. 

 Swamps, North Coast 



Ranges. 

 Humboldt County. (?) 



1065. Atrichoseris platyphylla 



A glabrous desert annual with broad basal leaves and a single stalk bearing 

 the branched inflorescence of numerous small white and purple heads. No pappus. 

 Achenes with corky ribs. Colorado and Mojave Deserts. 



STEPHANOMERIA 



Tall slender branching annuals, biennials or perennials with narrow leaves 

 often reduced to bracts in the upper half, and three to twelve flowered heads of 

 pink or flesh-colored flowers, opening in the early morning. 



1066. Stephanomeria cichoriaceae Southern California to the 



1067. 

 1068. 

 1069. 

 1070. 



1071. 



Stephanomeria Parryi deserts. 



Stephanomeria runcinata 

 Stephanomeria myrioclada 

 Stephanomeria exigua and 



vars. 

 Stephanomeria virgata and Canyons of middle Califor- 



vars. nia and common in the 



south. 



