Annual Forbs Around Las Vegas, Vegetation Around Las Vegas
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General: Woolly Easterbonnets (Antheropeas wallacei) are annual forbs that grows close to the ground, a typical "belly flower." Getting down on your belly, flower watchers will notice the small yellow, sunflower-type flowers with woolly hairs on the stems and leaves (woolly, but not cobweb-covered). The tip of the leaf is rounded, not notched. Woolly Easterbonnets is a common, sometimes abundant, component of vegetation communities in dry, well-drained gravelly areas on bajadas into the lower mountains in the Lower Sonoran (Creosote-Bursage Flats) and Upper Sonoran (Mojave Desert Scrub and Pinyon-Juniper Woodland) life zones. Family: Sunflower (Asteraceae) Other Names: formerly Antheropeas wallacei. |
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 Leaves with woolly hairs, tip not notched |
 Leaves with woolly hairs, tip not notched |
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 During dry years, few plants grow, and then as a single stem |
 During dry years, few plants grow, and then as a single stem |
 During dry years, few plants grow, and then as a single stem |
 During dry years, plants can grow as a single stem |
 During dry years, single stem with one long root |
 During dry years, plants can grow as a single stem with one long root |
 Yellow ray and disk flowers |
 Yellow ray and disk flowers |
Note: All distances, elevations, and other facts are approximate. Names generally follow the USDA database.
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