Chaenactis douglasii
Douglas' Dustymaiden

Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)

Photo taken near Moses Coulee, dry rolling shrub steppe hills near scoured ravines and coulees

Flowers:

white to pink; heads one to several; involucre greater than 1 cm; peduncles and involucres glandular-puberlent, and often tomentose discoid, flowers all tubular

Leaves:

less than 15 cm, generally cobwebby to tomentose, not fleshy; largest blades usually 2 pinnately lobed, primary lobes 3-7 pairs, more or less crowded, longest near the middle, tips curled

Plant:

perennial; 15-50 cm tall; thinly greyish cobwebby, hairs thinning with age. Infusion of plant used as a wash for chapped hands, insect bites, boils, tumors, and swellings by the Okanagon, and Thompson. A strong decoction of the plants were applied to snakebites by the Thompson, Okanagon, and Paiute.

Habitat:

Distribution of species:

middle to lowland elevations, usually in the mountains

Distribution of genus:

18 species: western North America