Eriophyllum cheiranthoides

Eriophyllum cheiranthoides Rydberg, sp. nov
A low shrub, 3-6 dm. high, branched above; branches white-tomentose; leaves pinnatifid or bipinnatifid, 3-4 cm. long, with 3-5 principal divisions and linear-lanceolate ultimate lobes, white-tomentose beneath, floccose and more glabrate above; heads in small corymbs, distinctly peduncled; involucre about 5 mm. high and broad, campanulate, tomentose; bracts 5 or 6, oval; ray-flowers 5 or 6; ligules orange, 3-4 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide; disk-corollas 2.5 mm. long, glandular-puberulent; achenes 2 mm. long, more or less hispidulous all over, especially the marginal ones; squamellae 6-8, oblong, 0.5 mm. long.
Tvpe collected on Mission Hills, Santa Barbara, California, 1908, Alice Eastwood 21 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.).
Distribution: Southern California.