Wyethia helenioides | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
(unranked): | Angiosperms |
(unranked): | Eudicots |
(unranked): | Asterids |
Order: | Asterales |
Family: | Asteraceae |
Genus: | Wyethia |
Species: | W. helenioides |
Binomial name | |
Wyethia helenioides (DC.) Hutt. |
Wyethia helenioides is a species of flowering plants in the sunflower family commonly referred to as gray mule's ears or whitehead mule-ears.
This species occurs chiefly in the California Coast Ranges, Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges, and some areas of the Sierra Nevada foothills in California.
Wyethia helenioides is a short, low growing golden-rayed wildflower, that resemble sunflowers. Typical understory associates in sunny clearings of mixed oak forests in coastal California include Mimulus aurantiacus and Calochortus luteus.