Luina hypoleuca
Silverback Luina
aka Littleleaf Luina, Littleleaf Silverback.This beautiful plant has numerous stems reach 1′ (30 cm) tall and form clumps which may be 3′ across. The pale yellow flowerheads are disk flowers only (no rays) and are about 3/4″ broad. The oval leaves are shiny and dark green on top but have white woolly undersides (thus hypoleuca). Usually found on open rocky slopes and ridges, cliff crevices and talus slopes to about 7,000′ elevation.
Family:
Asteraceae - SUNFLOWER FAMILY, ASTER FAMILY (Compositae)
Genus:
Luina is an anagram of 'Inula', a Eurasian genus wisted foot
Species:
hypoleuca means 'pale or whitish beneath'
