About Bahiopsis reticulata (S.Watson) E.E.Schill. & Panero
Bahiopsis reticulata (S.Watson) E.E.Schill. & Panero is a species of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family. It has two common names: netvein goldeneye and Death Valley goldeneye. This plant is native to the Mojave Desert of California and Nevada, where it grows in multiple types of dry desert habitat; many of its populations are located within Death Valley National Park. It is a tangled shrub with many slender stems that are covered in soft hairs and have peeling bark. It typically grows to be more than one meter tall and one meter wide. Its gray-green leaves are arranged oppositely on lower stems, and alternately on upper stems. Leaf blades are generally oval with pointed tips, reaching up to 9 centimeters long and 6.5 centimeters wide. The leaves have deep veins, are coated in woolly hairs, and are glandular rather than shiny. Its inflorescence is a cyme made up of sunflower-like flower heads, each held on a hairy, leafless peduncle. Each flower head has several yellow ray florets that measure up to 1.5 centimeters long. Its fruit is an achene tipped with a pappus.
