| Wyethia helenioides | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Genus: | Wyethia |
| Species: | W. helenioides |
| Binomial name | |
| Wyethia helenioides (DC.) Hutt. [1] |
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Wyethia helenioides is a species of flowering plants in the sunflower family[2] commonly referred to as gray mule's ears.
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This species occurs chiefly in the California Coast Ranges, Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges, and some areas of the Sierra Nevada foothills in California.
Wyethia helenioides is a short, low growing golden-rayed wildflower, that resemble sunflowers. Typical understory associated in sunny clearings of mixed oak forests in coastal California include Mimulus aurantiacus and Calochortus luteus.[3]