Centaurea melitensis L.

RANCHO SANTA ANA BOTANIC GARDEN
Flora of Los Angeles County, California, U.S.A.
Asteraceae

Centaurea melitensis L.

WIIITTIER HILLS (local name for the western extremity
of the Puente Hills): upper end of Turnbull Canyon.
Whittier 7.5' USGS quadrangle; T2S R11W, N/2 NE/4
SW/4 section 14 (projected); elev. ca 965 feet.

Locally common weedy annual with bright yellow
flowers; occurring with Artemisia douglasiana, Malosma
laurina, Lotus scoparius, Hirschfeldia incana, etc.

Tim Ross 6556

15 June 1992

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