Pronunciation: kal-i-KO-ser-is RITE-ee-eye
Common name: White tackstem
Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower)
Habitat: Desert washes and plains, gravelly slopes
to 6000', creosote bush scrub, east Mojave Desert
to Eureka Valley and Death Valley
Blooming period: March to May
Click for Latin name derivations: 1) Calycoseris
2) wrightii