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Voucher taken with permit.

High 50 cm.
Leaf, long 15 cm, wide 4 mm, rolled in.
Ligule 4 mm, with long hairs up to 12 mm.
Infl. 21 cm.
Glumes 18 and 16 mm, incl awn, purple striped, keeled.
1 Floret.
Awn 10 - 13 cm.
Lemma body smooth.
Lemma / palea 4,4 mm / 1,5 mm.
Palea 2-veined.

Coastal Goldenbush (Isocoma menziesii) Native, perennial plant that grows in sandy soil on dry slopes in grassland and coastal scrub. Stems are usually erect and glabrous, minutely scabrous, or tomentose (depending on the subspecies). Leaves are stiff and sharply toothed. Phyllaries are appressed, not recurved like Saw-toothed Goldenbush (Hazardia squarrosa). inflorescences are clusters of bright yellow discoid flowers (there are no ray flowers). Peak bloom time: July-September.

Jepson eFlora https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=3640

Plants of Monterey County: an Illustrated Field Key, 2nd edition, Matthews and Mitchell, 2015, pp. 44-45.

Flora of Fort Ord: Monterey County, California, David Styer, 2019, p. 47.

Monterey County Wildflowers: a Field Guide, Yeager and Mitchell, p. 328.

Monterey County Wildflowers https://montereywildflowers.com/asteraceae-haz-isoc/

40-50 of these native shrubs growing on dry south-facing grassy slope on boundry between Marks Ranch and Las Palmas Ranch. Soil may be decomposed sandstone. More tomentose than any others I've seen around here.

Coastal Goldenbush (Isocoma menziesii) Native, perennial plant that grows in sandy soil on dry slopes in grassland and coastal scrub. Stems are usually erect and glabrous, minutely scabrous, or tomentose (depending on the subspecies). Leaves are stiff and sharply toothed. Phyllaries are appressed, not recurved like Saw-toothed Goldenbush (Hazardia squarrosa). inflorescences are clusters of bright yellow discoid flowers (there are no ray flowers). Peak bloom time: July-September.

Jepson eFlora https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=3640

Plants of Monterey County: an Illustrated Field Key, 2nd edition, Matthews and Mitchell, 2015, pp. 44-45.

Flora of Fort Ord: Monterey County, California, David Styer, 2019, p. 47.

Monterey County Wildflowers: a Field Guide, Yeager and Mitchell, p. 328.

Monterey County Wildflowers https://montereywildflowers.com/asteraceae-haz-isoc/