Psathyrotes ramosissima
Psathyrotes ramosissima is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common names velvet turtleback and turtleback. It is native to the southwestern United States.
Description
It is a low, neatly mounded plant producing spreading stems which are hairless to densely woolly in texture. It grows to tall and has a turpentine odour.Leaves are borne on long petioles. The leaf blade is roundish, veined, and up to long. It has a toothed edge and a velvety surface coated in woolly fibres and shiny hairs; it is brownish to grayish or pale green in color.
The knobby inflorescence is wide and lined with woolly gray-green phyllaries with dull points that curve outward. It contains several hairy yellow disc florets. The fruit is an achene tipped with a large pappus of over 100 long, fine bristles.