Clokey's fleabane facts for kids

Clokey's fleabane, also known as Clokey's daisy, is a beautiful flowering plant found in North America. It belongs to the daisy family, just like the common daisies you might see in your garden!

Clokey's Fleabane: A Special Desert Daisy

Where Clokey's Fleabane Grows

This special plant is native to the dry, open areas of Nevada and eastern California. It loves to grow in places with sagebrush, which is a type of shrub common in deserts. You can also find it on rocky slopes, called talus, on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada mountains. A few groups of these plants have also been found in Beaver County in Utah.

What Clokey's Fleabane Looks Like

Clokey's fleabane is a small plant that lives for more than two years (we call this a perennial plant). Most of its leaves grow close to the ground around the base of the plant.

Each plant has hairy stems that stand straight up and don't branch out. At the top of each stem, there's a single flower head. This flower head is about one centimeter (or 0.4 inches) wide.

The center of the flower head is filled with bright golden yellow tiny flowers called disc florets. Around the edge, there's a fringe of up to 55 thin petals, which are actually tiny flowers called ray florets. These ray florets are usually light to medium purple, but sometimes they can be white or pink. They often bend backwards, away from the center of the flower.

Different Types of Clokey's Fleabane

There are two main types, or varieties, of Clokey's fleabane:

• Erigeron clokeyi var. clokeyi - This type is found in the Charleston Mountains, located in Clark County in southern Nevada.
• Erigeron clokeyi var. pinzliae - This type grows in California, Nevada, and Utah.