Calflora: Blepharizonia plumosa

Blepharizonia plumosa (Kellogg) E. Greene

big tarweed

Blepharizonia plumosa, a dicot, is an annual herb that is native to California and is endemic (limited) to California alone.

It is included in the CNPS Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants on list 1B.1 (rare, threatened, or endangered in CA and elsewhere). 7th Edition / 8th Edition

Communities:	Valley Grassland, Foothill Woodland, Chaparral
Elevation:	between 0 and 3609 feet
Family:	ASTERACEAE
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Blepharizonia found in California.

Name Status:

Accepted by TJM2 + PLANTS + JM93

Other Names:
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CNPS:

Blepharizonia plumosa ssp. plumosa

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Distribution by County:

See a detailed Distribution Grid of this plant in California.

A shaded county indicates that there are ocurrence records of this plant within the county.

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	There are specimen records from this county in an herbarium.
	There are documented records, vouchered or confirmed by an expert.
	There are reported records.
	There are reported records available indirectly (eg. in botanical literature).

Records by County, with approximate record counts in the form: TOTAL / CCH. Click county name to view records.

Alameda: 23 / 10 CCH Contra Costa: 47 / 25 CCH Fresno: 4 / 4 CCH Kern: 3 / 2 CCH Monterey: 6 / 4 CCH Santa Barbara: 1 / 0 CCH San Benito: 10 / 9 CCH Santa Cruz: 1 / 1 CCH San Joaquin: 7 / 7 CCH San Luis Obispo: 14 / 13 CCH Solano: 5 / 4 CCH Stanislaus: 5 / 5 CCH Tulare: 1 / 0 CCH

CCH: records provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria.

Information about Blepharizonia plumosa from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
USDA PLANTS Profile (BLPL)
Nursery availability and horticultural info (what grows with this plant?) on CNPLX
CNPS Inventory of rare and endangered plants
2012 Jepson Manual Treament from the Jepson Herbarium,
University of California, Berkeley
Original Publication citation. on the International Plants Names Index
Search efloras.org (Flora of North America)
Search the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center Native Plant Database