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Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Eriophyllum in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Eriophyllum (Greek, woolly-leaved). Compositae. Herbs, mostly woody, and commonly with yellow- rayed heads; one kind cult, in a few hardy borders is a low, tufted, herbaceous perennial, with much-divided lvs., covered with wool beneath (each st. bearing about 5), and 8-rayed yellow heads 2 in. across, borne in a loosely forking fashion on peduncles 3-7 in. long. The genus was included in Bahia by Bentham & Hooker, but is now kept distinct largely because of the permanently erect involucral bracts: seeds mostly 4- angled, and pappus of nerveless and mostly pointless, colorless portions. Actinolepis is included in this genus by some authors. There are about a dozen species, in N. W. Amer. E. caespitosum, Douglas (Actinella lanata, Pursh, not Nutt. Bahia lanata, DC.), described above, has been advertised. Either moist or dry ground, Mont, to Brit. Col. and S. Calif.; very variable. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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