| Enceliopsis nudicaulis | |
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| var. corrugata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Tribe: | Heliantheae |
| Genus: | Enceliopsis |
| Species: | E. nudicaulis |
| Binomial name | |
| Enceliopsis nudicaulis (A.Gray) A. Nelson |
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Enceliopsis nudicaulis is a species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common name nakedstem sunray, or naked-stemmed daisy.
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It is native to the Southwestern United States, including the Inyo Mountains-White Mountains and sky islands the Mojave Desert in California. It grows in desert, plateau, and montane habitats.
Enceliopsis nudicaulis is a perennial herb growing up to 40 centimeters tall from a woody caudex fringed with gray-green hairy leaves. The leaves are oval in shape and up to 6 centimeters long and wide.
The inflorescence is a solitary flower head atop a tall, erect peduncle. The flower head has a base made up of three layers of densely woolly, pointed phyllaries. It has a fringe of approximately 21 yellow ray florets each 2 to 4 centimeters long. The fruit is a hairy achene about a centimeter in length.
There are two varieties of this species: