Eriophyllum tenuifolium

Eriophyllum tenuifolium (DC.) Rydberg
Bahia tenuifolia DC. Prodr. 5: 657. 1836.
Eriophyllum confer UJlorum laxiflorum A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 19: 25. 1883.
A low shrub, 2-5 dm. high, densely branched below; branches slender, white-tomentose, mostly simple; leaves 2-4 cm. long, pinnatifid or bipinnatifid into almost linear-filiform divisions, white-tomentose beneath, floccose and glabrate above, revolute-margined; heads in small corymbs, distinctly peduncled; involucre campanulate, about 4 mm. high and 3 mm. broad, white-tomentose; bracts about 5, oval; ray-flowers as many; ligules 3-4 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide; disk-corollas 2.5-3 mm. long, glandular-puberulent; achenes 2.5 mm. long, sparingly hispidulous; squamellae 6-8, oblong, fully 0.5 mm. long.
Type locality: California.
Distribution: Central California to Arizona, Sonora, and Lower California.