Oregon Sunshine (Eriophyllum lanatum)

A pale green dense mat ground cover with a silver hue that provide happy yellow blooms all Spring and Summer!

Description:

  • Groundcover shrub densely covered with woolly hairs, grows low with long stems reaching upward.

  • Stems numerous, bare. Leaves 1/2–3 in. long, linear to oval, pinnately divided or entire.

  • Flower heads single on stalks, with 8–13 yellow ray flowers or occasionally rayless, many yellow disk flowers.

  • Grows in many habitats, most often in dry lands with sandy or rocky soils, sometimes along coastal bluffs from near coastline to mid elevations.

  • Var. achillaeoides has leaves divided like yarrow, while var. integrifolium, the typical Oregon sunshine, has fewer ray flowers, leaves entire or with lobes only at tip end.

  • Rarity: Common

  • Flowering Time: All Spring And Summer

  • Life Cycle: Annual, Perennial

  • Height: 4--40 inches

  • Habitat: Coastal, Meadow, Shrub-Steppe

  • Found In: Olympic Np, Mt. Rainier Np, N Cascades Np, Crater Lake Np, Wallowas, Steens, Siskiyous

  • Native: Yes

Source: Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest

Additional resource: Oregon Flora Project