Beautiful hulsea

Hulsea vestita var. callicarpha H. M. Hall, Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 1: 129. 1902; H. callicarpha (H. M. Hall) S. Watson ex Rydberg

Plants 40–100 cm. Leaves: proximal blades 3–8 cm, margins entire or undulate (sometimes weakly lobed near apices), faces densely lanate to woolly; cauline leaves (on proximal ¹/4 of stems) lance-oblong to ovate (1.5–3 cm). Heads 1–3. Involucres obconic, 10–15 mm diam. Phyllaries 8–12 mm, outer narrowly obovate to lanceolate, apices acuminate. Ray florets 16–25; laminae yellow, sometimes red-tinged distally, 8–10 mm. Disc corollas yellow. Cypselae 5–7 mm; pappus scales subequal, 1.5–2 mm. 2n = 38.

Flowering late spring–summer. Rocky slopes, talus, and flats, conifer forests, sometimes chaparral, on granitic and metamorphic substrates; 1300–2500 m; Calif.

Subspecies callicarpha grows in the Palomar, San Jacinto, and Santa Rosa mountains.