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Hesperevax sparsiflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name erect dwarf cudweed.It is native to California and Oregon, where it grows in several habitat types including sandy coastal areas and the serpentine soils of inland hills.
The foliage grows in dense sprays, dark green to somewhat yellow-green in color. The leaves are scale-like, 2–5 mm (0.08–0.20 in) long, and produced on rounded (not flattened) shoots. The seed cones are globose to oblong, 11–22 mm (0.43–0.87 in) long, with 6 to 10 scales, green at first, maturing brown or gray-brown about 20–24 months ...
Cylindropuntia prolifera is a mostly erect, treelike cactus which can approach 3 meters in maximum height. The gray-green segments are narrow and cylindrical, surfaced in fleshy tubercles bearing many brown or reddish spines up to 2 centimeters long.
It grows in wet grassy habitat kept moist by runoff from hot springs and pools. The combined area of land containing the two populations was estimated to be less than 80 square meters in 1990. [ 1 ] The species is threatened by the disturbance of its grassland habitat; both populations are on privately owned, unprotected land; one of these is ...
Senecio californicus grows to 10–40 centimetres (3.9–15.7 in) tall or sometimes taller, from a taproot. The stems can be solitary or grow in branching clusters. [1] The leaves have linear or lance-shaped blades up to 7 centimeters long. They are sometimes fleshy, especially in plants that occur on the coastline. [1]
Marah fabacea (sometimes spelled Marah fabaceus), [1] the California manroot or bigroot, is the most common of the manroot species native to California.Its range throughout the state subsumes nearly the entire ranges of all the other California native manroots species and intergrades.
It is native to California in the United States and Baja California in Mexico, where it grows in many types of habitats. [1] [2] [3] Helianthus californicus is an erect perennial herb growing from a network of tough, woody roots with small rhizomes. It is a sprawling, gangly plant, sending a thin stem to heights between one and three meters (3 ...