About Eriastrum abramsii (Elmer) H.Mason
Eriastrum abramsii (Elmer) H.Mason is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family, commonly known as Abrams' woollystar. Its specific epithet abramsii honors botanist LeRoy Abrams. This species is endemic to California, where it grows in the hills of the Coast Ranges in and around the San Francisco Bay Area. It is an annual herb that produces a thin, usually woolly stem reaching up to around 15 centimeters tall. Its leaves are divided into several narrow, thread-like linear lobes. The inflorescence is a woolly cluster of narrow, leaf-like bracts woven through with webby fibers. Its small flowers have yellow throats and white or blue corolla lobes.
