White Easterbonnets

Antheropeas lanosum (A. Gray) Rydberg
Burrielia lanosa A. Gray, in Torr. Pacif. R. R. Rep. 4: 107. 1857. Actinolepis lanosa A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 198. 1874. Eriophyllum lanosum A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 19: 25. 1883.
A loosely floccose annual; stems slender, branched, 5-13 cm. high, ascending or erect; leaves linear or narrowly linear-oblanceolate, entire, 1-2 cm. long, 1-3 mm. wide, loosely floccose; peduncles 1-5 cm. long; involucre campanulate, 5-6 mm. high, 6-7 mm. broad;
bracts about 10; receptacle convex; ray-flowers about 10; ligules white, 5 mm. long,
3 mm. wide; disk-corollas nearly 3 mm. long, glandular-puberulent; achenes 3-3.5 mm.
long, sparingly appressed-hirsute; pappus of 4 or 5 slender subulate squamellae, produced into
scabrous awns, equaling the corolla, and of as many or more obtuse ones about 1 mm. long.
Type locality: Gravelly hills near the Colorado of the West.
Distribution: Arizona to southern Utah, southern California, and Lower California.