Characteristics Of Canyon Sunflowers Stock Photography

Venegasia carpesioides is the only species of its genus, and it has a limited range - in moist locations along the coast of south California, and inland mountains. The shrub-like plant has large green leaves, and forms a substantial clump, 5 feet or more tall and wide. Yellow flowers are borne at the tips of the branched stems they have between 12 and 30 grooved yellow ray florets (around one inch long), with generally rounded ends (and a small spike at the apex), and from 40 to over 100 orange-yellow disc florets, which when mature produce tiny stamens and styles.