About Eriastrum virgatum (Benth.) H.Mason
Eriastrum virgatum (Benth.) H.Mason is a species of flowering plant in the phlox family, commonly called wand woollystar. This plant is endemic to California, where it occurs along the coastline and in the coastal mountain ranges of Monterey and San Benito Counties. It grows in chaparral, as well as coastal and inland scrub habitats. It is an annual herb that produces a thin, usually woolly stem that reaches up to around 40 centimeters tall. Its leaves are narrow and thick, growing up to 5 centimeters long, and are sometimes divided into two narrow lobes. The inflorescence is a woolly cluster of narrow, leaflike bracts woven through with webby fibers. Its flowers have yellow throats and bright blue corollas, with lobes that grow up to one centimeter long.
