[Members of the Sunflower Family with Button-like Heads in Mt. Adams Country]

Woollyheads in Mt. Adams Country

The Genus Psilocarphus

slender woollyheads? Photographed along Laurel Lane at the western edge of Conboy National Wildlife Refuge.........June 17, 2006. - Unidentified woollyhead (Psilocarphus sp.)

Can anyone confirm via the photo at left whether this species is slender woollyheads? Photographed along Laurel Lane at the western edge of Conboy National Wildlife Refuge.........June 17, 2006. The photo at right shows an unidentified woollyhead as seen in roadside mudpuddles in the Klickitat Canyon Community Forest (south of the Klickitat River)......June 9, 2022.

Tall Woollyheads: Psilocarphus elatior (Synonym: Psilocarphus oregonus var. elatior) -

Slender Woollyheads: Psilocarphus tenellus (Synonym: Psilocarphus tenellus var. tenellus) -


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