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Definition: Eriophyllum wallacei

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. Tiny grey woolly tufted annual with small golden-yellow flower heads; southeastern California to northwestern Arizona and southwestern Utah; sometimes placed in genus Eriophyllum.[Wordnet]
2. Tiny gray woolly tufted annual with small golden-yellow flower heads; southeastern California to northwestern Arizona and southwestern Utah; sometimes placed in genus Eriophyllum.[Wordnet].

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Extended Definition: Eriophyllum wallacei


Eriophyllum wallacei

Eriophyllum wallacei

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Eriophyllum
Species: E. wallacei
Binomial name
Eriophyllum wallacei
(Gray) Rydb.
Synonyms

Antheropeas wallacei

Eriophyllum wallacei (syn. Antheropeas wallacei) is a flowering plant in the daisy family which is known by the common names woolly daisy and woolly easterbonnets. This is a small, squat daisy which may grow in clumps or on short erect stems in sand, rocks, and gravel in the southwestern United States. The plant is covered in masses of white cotton-candy-like wool. It has small oval leaves and each neat, bright golden yellow daisy flower is about an inch wide.

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