About Malacothrix clevelandii A.Gray
Malacothrix clevelandii is a species of flowering plant in the Asteraceae family, commonly known as Cleveland's desertdandelion. It is native to areas of the southwestern United States and Baja California, where it grows most commonly in chaparral, including cleared and disturbed sites such as slopes that have recently been burned by wildfire. It has also been introduced and established in southern South America as an introduced species. This plant is an annual herb that grows a flowering stem reaching a maximum height of around 35 centimeters. Its toothed leaves are largest at the plant's base, growing smaller the higher they occur on the stem. The inflorescence is an arrangement of flower heads, each holding rings of pale yellow ray florets that are approximately half a centimeter long. The specific epithet clevelandii was named to honor Daniel Cleveland, a 19th-century plant collector and lawyer based in San Diego.
