Asteraceae Species Groups or Genera
found in Anza-Borrego

Prairie Sunflower At least 40 Asteraceae genera can be found in Anza-Borrego, including the following:

Acamptopappus — Represented by the tiny yellow-flowered Desert Goldenhead

Adenophyllum — Represented by the fragrant San Felipe Dissodia

Ambrosia — Represented by the Cheesebush or Burrobrush

Baccharis — Represented by the Mule Fat, also known as Water-Wally and Seep Willow

Baileya — Represented by the Desert-Marigold or Lax Flower

Bebbia — Represented by Rush Sweetbush, a fragrant favorite of butterflies and bees

Brickellia — Represented by the California Spear-Leaved Brickellbush

Calycoseris — Represented by the white blossoms of the Tackstem

Chaenactis — Represented by the white flowers of the Desert Pincushion

Chrysothamnus — Represented by the Punctate Rabbitbrush or Black-Stem

Coreopsis — Represented by the Tickseed or California Coreopsis

Dicoria — Represented by the white flowers of the Desert Dicoria or Twinbugs, Dicoria canescens

Encelia — Represented by the Rayless Encilia and Acton's Encelia

Eriophyllum — Represented by the Wooly Sunfower, Eriophyllum ambiguum var. paleaceum, Woolly Frocks, Eriophyllum lanosum, and by Wallace's Wooly Daisy, E. wallacei

Filago — Represented by two Cottonrose or Filzkraut species, Filago arizonica and F. californica with reddish-purple flowers

Geraea — Represented by Desert-Sunflower

Gutierrezia — Represented by the Broom Matchweed or Snakeweed and the California Matchweed

Helianthus — Represented by the Praire-Sunflower (pictured above)

Heterotheca — Represented by the Telegraph Weed

Isocoma — Represented by Alkali Goldenbush, Isocoma acradenia var. eremophila

Lasthenia — Represented by Common Goldfields

Malacothrix — Represented by the Desert Dandelion

Malperia — Represented by the rare Brown Turbans, Malperia tenuis, with reddish stems and brownish flowers

Monoptilon — Represented by the low-growing Desert Star

Palafoxia — Represented by Spanish Needes

Pectis — Represented by Chinchweed

Perityle — Represented by the Rock-Daisy

Peucephyllum — Represented by the fragrant Pygmy-Cedar (Dwarf-Fir or Desert-Fir)

Pleurocoronis — Represented by the Desert Arrow-Leaf, Pleurocoronis pluriseta

Pluchea — Represented by Arrow Weed, Pluchea sericea

Porophyllum — Represented by Odora, Porophyllum gracile, with purplish-white flowers and a rank odor

Psathyrotes — Represented by the Turtleback

Rafinesquia — Represented by the Desert-Chicory

Senecio — Represented by the California Butterweed (Senecio californicus) and Mohave Groundsel (Senecio mohavensis)

Sonchus — Represented by the Common Sow-Thistle, Sonchus oleraceus

Stephanomeria — Represented by the Small Wreath-Plant (Stephanomeria exigua ssp. exigua) and the Few Flower Wreath-Plant or Wire-Lettuce or Desert-Straw (Stephanomeria pauciflora var. pauciflora)

Stylocline — Represented by the Stylocline intertexta and the Peck Nest Straw, Stylocline psilocarphoides

Trichoptilium — Represented by the Desert Yellow-Head, Trichoptilium incisum

Trixis — Represented by the California Trixis, Trixis californica var. californica

Xylorhiza — Represented by the rare species, Orcutt's Woody-Aster

Asteraceae Species Groups or Genera found in Anza-Borrego

Asteraceae Species Groups or Genera
found in Anza-Borrego