Cacaliopsis is a monotypic genusCacaliopsis. Flora of North America. of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae,Gray, Asa. 1883. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 19: 50–51 in English containing the single species Cacaliopsis nardosmia (formerly Cacalia nardosmia). It is known by the common name silvercrown.Cacaliopsis nardosmia. USDA PLANTS. It is native to western North America.
Description This species is a perennial herb growing from rhizomes with a fibrous root system. It has an erect stem reaching about in maximum height. The leaves are alternately arranged, and most are near the base of the stem. The blades have lobes subdivided into toothed segments. They are hairy to woolly, especially on the undersides. The blades are up to long and are borne on petioles up to 30 cm long. Blooming from May to July, the flower heads are in arrays or clusters, long apiece, with equally long bracts. They contain up to 50 long yellow or orange disc florets and no ray florets. The fruit is a veiny cylindrical cypsela with a long pappus of many barbed, white bristles.Cacaliopsis nardosmia. The Jepson eFlora 2013.Cacaliopsis nardosmia. Flora of North America.
Distribution and habitat It is distributed from southern British Columbia to northern California, along both the Cascades and northern Coast Ranges. The plant grows in oak and pine forests and meadows, sometimes on serpentine soils.
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Cacaliopsis nardosmia. Burke Museum. University of Washington. Cacaliopsis nardosmia. CalPhotos.