Helenium thurberi


Helenium thurberi is a North American plant in the sunflower family, commonly known as Thurber's sneezeweed. It is native to Mexico and the southwestern United States.
Helenium thurberi is an annual herb up to tall, with small wings running down the sides of the stems. Leaves are lance-shaped. One plant can produce up to 120 flower heads, in a branching array. Each head has an egg-shaped or conical disc that may contain 500 or more minuscule disc flowers each across, each yellow toward the bottom but brown or reddish-brown toward the tip. There are no ray flowers.