Chambers
Pronunciation: steb-in-SO-ser-is het-er-oh-KAR-pa
Common name: Brown microseris, Brown puffs
Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower)
Habitat: Open or grassy to sometimes disturbed
places generally inland, rocky to clay soils below
3000', derived from Microseris douglasii and
Uropappus lindleyi
Blooming period: March to May
Click for Latin name derivations: 1) Stebbinsoseris
2) heterocarpa