Acamptopappus shockleyi
Acamptopappus shockleyi, the Shockley's goldenhead, is a perennial subshrub in the found in and near the eastern Mojave desert in southern Nevada and southeastern California.Description
Acamptopappus shockleyi is a perennial subshrub. Flower heads are borne singly, with both ray flowers and disk flowers, compared to Acamptopappus sphaerocephalus which also grows in the Mojave desert but has only disc flowers on heads in corymbose arrays.
Acamptopappus shockleyi grows from in flats and washes of the eastern Mojave Desert, White Mountains, Inyo Mountains, and areas of southern Nevada.Etymology
The species is named after William Hillman Shockley.
