About Palafoxia arida B.L.Turner & M.I.Morris
Palafoxia arida is an annual herb that grows an erect, branching, glandular stem. Its leaves are covered in rough hairs, shaped linear or lance-shaped, and may grow longer than 10 centimeters. The inflorescence is an array that holds up to 40 flower heads. The flower heads are cylindrical, around 2 to 3 centimeters long, lined with long, pointed phyllaries, and contain up to 40 pink or white tubular disc florets. Its fruit is an achene that measures over one centimeter in length when the pappus is included. This species is native to the Mojave Desert and Sonoran Desert ecoregions of California, in the Southwestern United States, and to northwestern Mexico.
