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Eriophyllum lanatum

Common Woolly Sunflower · Oregon Sunshine · Woolly Eriophyllum

Family AsteraceaeGenus Eriophyllum

Yellow daisy flowers on sprawling gray woolly stems spreading over sandy ground
The whole plantWalter Siegmund (talk)CC BY-SA 3.0

About the plant

What it is and where it grows — not part of any germination protocol.

Habit
biennialPlants of the World Online
Habit
Annual, Perennial, Forb/herb, SubshrubPLANTS Database
Flower
YellowWikipedia
Native range
British Columbia, California, Idaho, Mexico Northwest, Montana, Nevada and elsewhereGBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Toxicity is noted only where a source states it. No note here is not a finding of safety.

Sources: Plants of the World Online — Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; PLANTS Database — USDA NRCS; Wikipedia — Wikipedia contributors; GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Worth knowing

Protocol

DerivedN. C. Deno, 1993

Difficulty Low Rated by us, not by the source.

  1. Cold moist stratification

    Temperature: 40°F 4°C

Germination happens during step 1, in 42 days.

100% germination in 21–42 days.

Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed. — N. C. Deno, 1993 · Ch. 20, Eriophyllum p. 140Public domain
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Eriophyllum (Asteraceae). E. lanatum germ. 40(100% in 3-6 w). Germination at 70 was reduced to 25% but the rate was about the same.
Seed Germination Theory and Practice, 2nd ed., Ch. 20, Eriophyllum p. 140. Quoted exactly. Every value on this card comes from this record, except the difficulty rating, which is ours; the step names come from a fixed list.

How each step is done, in Deno’s words, and what Verified and Derived mean.

Germination trials

Readers’ own records of sowing this species, published after review. Share your trial · All trials

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