Desert Marigold

Description:

Yellow marigold-shaped flower that is 10 to 30 inches tall with a basal rosette of one- to four-inch long, pinnate wooly, or hairy, leaves. Single, one- to two-inch wide flower heads grow on the end of stems up to one foot above the leaves. Both rays (34 to 55) and disks (more than 100) are yellow. Rays are three-lobed.

Habitat:

Sonoran Desert near Apache Junction, AZ