Viguiera parishii known commonly as Parish goldeneye or shrubby goldeneye, is a flowering

Flowering plant

The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...

 shrub

Shrub

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 in the family Asteraceae

Asteraceae

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, native to the southwestern United States

United States

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, including southern California

California

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, far southern Nevada

Nevada

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, and much of Arizona

Arizona

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, as well as adjacent parts of northwest Mexico

Mexico

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 (Baja California

Baja California

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 and Sonora

Sonora

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).

Parish goldeneye grows to two feet tall, with bright yellow flowers. It is a plant of desert areas, usually associated with creosote bush

Creosote bush

Larrea tridentata is known as Creosote bush as a plant, chaparral as a medicinal herb, and as "gobernadora" in Mexico, Spanish for "governess," due to its ability for inhibiting the growth of nearby plants to have more water. In Sonora, it is more commonly called "hediondilla." It is a flowering...

, and ranges from sea level to 5000' in elevation. It blooms after periods of rain, both in spring and in fall, or after the monsoon season in Arizona.

The species name honors either of two brothers, Samuel Bonsall Parish (1838-1928) and William Fletcher Parish (1840-1918), both active botanists in southern California. It is closely related to Viguiera deltoidea and is sometimes considered a variety of that species.

External links

• Viguiera parishii profile at Calflora
• Viguiera parishii range map at Calflora
• Bahiopsis parishii at eFloras
• Jepson Manual Treatment
• http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_index&where-taxon=Viguiera+parishiiPhoto gallery