About Sanvitalia abertii A.Gray
Sanvitalia abertii A.Gray is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, commonly known as Abert's creeping zinnia and Abert's sanvitalia. It is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, where it grows in desert scrub, desert mountains, and woodlands. This species is an annual herb that has somewhat variable appearance. Its mostly erect stem ranges from 2 to 29 centimeters tall, and may be simple or branched into many stems. Its leaves are linear or lance-shaped, and measure a few centimeters in length. The entire plant is covered in rough hairs. Its inflorescence is a cyme of flower heads, which have thick, leathery yellow ray florets that are 2 or 3 millimeters long and notched at their tips. Its fruit is an achene. Achenes that grow from ray florets are light-colored and tipped with pappi, while achenes from the disc florets at the center of the flower head are darker and do not have pappi.
