Eriophyllum ambiguum is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name beautiful woolly sunflower. It is native to the deserts and adjacent hills of southern and eastern California, northwestern Arizona, and southern Nevada.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Beautiful Woolly Sunflower being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Monolopia gracilens
- Eriophyllum wallacei
- Syntrichopappus fremontii
- Pseudobahia heermannii
- Monolopia lanceolata
- Monolopia stricta
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Asterales
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Eriophyllum
- Species
- Eriophyllum ambiguum
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