Distribution: Widely distributed on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia to California, east to Montana, Wyoming, and Utah.
Habitat: Dry, open, often rocky areas at low elevations to the subalpine.
Flowers: May-August
Origin: Native
Growth Duration: Perennial
Conservation Status: Not of concern
Pollination: Bumblebees, bees, flies, butterflies, beetles, wasps
Perennial, white-woolly throughout, 1-6 dm. tall, usually several-stemmed from the base.
Leaves variable, 1-8 cm. long, entire to pinnatifid or ternate.
Heads solitary on long peduncles; involucre 6-12 mm. high, the bracts broad, erect and keeled; rays 8-13, yellow, 5-20 mm. long; disk flowers yellow; pappus a toothed crown, or a few chaffy scales.
Achenes slender, 4-angled.
Publication: Hort. Woburn. 183. 1833.
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var. integrifolium – Oregon sunshine
Occurring chiefly east of the Cascades crest in Washington; southern British Columbia to California, east to southwestern Montana, Wyoming, and Utah. -
var. lanatum – common woolly sunflower Occurring east of the Cascades crest in far eastern Washington, occasionally occurring west to the east slope of the Cascades crest; eastern Washington to adjacent northeastern Oregon, east to central Idaho and west-central Montana.
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var. leucophyllum – common woolly sunflower Occurring west of the Cascades crest in Washington; southwestern British Columbia to southwestern Oregon.
PNW Herbaria: Specimen records of Eriophyllum lanatum in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database
WA Flora Checklist: Eriophyllum lanatum checklist entry
OregonFlora: Eriophyllum lanatum information
E-Flora BC: Eriophyllum lanatum atlas page
CalPhotos: Eriophyllum lanatum photos
