Golden yarrow is an abundant and widespread perennial shrub or subshrub somewhat woody at the base with numerous erect, slender, simple or few-branched stems and alternate leaves that are pinnately 3-5 lobed with very narrow linear almost filiform divisions, green above and white-tomentose beneath, and with revolute margins.  The many flowers appear in dense, corymbose clusters at the ends of branches and have 4-6 orange-yellow rays and 10-75 tubular, 5-lobed disk flowers with puberulent to glandular corollas.  Golden yarrow grows 1'-2' tall and blooms usually from March to August.  It occupies dry slopes and washes in coastal sage scrub and chaparral, and is exceedingly variable.

Click here for Latin name derivations: 1) Eriophyllum 2) confertiflorum.
Pronunciation: er-ee-oh-FIL-um kon-fer-ti-FLOR-um.
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