Status: Native
Synonyms:
None
Trixis californica is a small perennial shrub that grows among rocky slopes on southern exposures at lower to middle elevation.
The leaves are lanceolate and toothed, and the yellow flowerheads are unusual in that each floret is bilabiate with two asymmetrical lips
with one larger than the other. The floral lips turn whitish as they age.
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Trixis californica, photo Russ Kleinman and Richard Felger, Burro Mtns., Wild Horse Mesa, June 4, 2008
Trixis californica, growth habit, photo Russ Kleinman, Burro Mtns., Wild Horse Mesa, May 28, 2009
Trixis californica, closer photo of involucre and pappus of bristles, photo Russ Kleinman, Burro Mtns., Wild Horse Mesa, May 28, 2009
Trixis californica, closeup of inflorescence, photo Russ Kleinman, Burro Mtns., Wild Horse Mesa, May 28, 2009
Trixis californica, closeup of inflorescence lateral view, photo Russ Kleinman, Burro Mtns., Wild Horse Mesa, May 28, 2009
Trixis californica, growth habit, photo Russ Kleinman, Sycamore Canyon near Cliff, November 1, 2009
Trixis californica, closeup of inflorescence, photo Russ Kleinman, Sycamore Canyon near Cliff, November 1, 2009
Trixis californica, closeup of leaf, photo Russ Kleinman, Sycamore Canyon near Cliff, November 1, 2009
Trixis californica, closeup of measured inflorescence, photo Russ Kleinman, Sycamore Canyon near Cliff, November 1, 2009
Trixis californica, closeup of single bilabiate floret, photo Russ Kleinman, Sycamore Canyon near Cliff, November 1, 2009
Trixis californica, macro of achene, photo Russ Kleinman, Sycamore Canyon near Cliff, November 1, 2009
Trixis californica, flowers and fruit, photo Russ Kleinman & Richard Felger, Sycamore Canyon near Cliff, June 29, 2010
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