Cacaliopsis (Luina) nardosmia
Silvercrown

Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)

Photo taken at Leavenworth Ski Hill, openly wooded area in partial shade

photo of Cacaliopsis nardosmia

Flowers:

several heads per stem, discoid, yellow; involucre 10 to 17 mm, disk 12 to 30 mm wide; receptacle naked; pappus of many capillary bristles;


Leaves:

principle leaves with a broad palmately cleft blade, generally 20 cm by 25 cm, abruptly contracted to the long petiole; cauline leaves few and reduced


Plant:

perennial

Habitat:

meadows and open woods

Distribution of species:

the crest and east slope of the Cascades in Washington and northern Oregon, irregularly distributed south and west from there


Distribution of genus:

2 species: northwest North America