Raillardella pringlei

Raillardella pringlei is an uncommon species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common name showy raillardella.[1] It is endemic to the southern Klamath Ranges of northern California, where it grows in moist forest habitat on serpentine soils. It is a rhizomatous perennial herb growing in a clump of rosetted basal leaves. The leaves are linear to lance-shaped with smooth or faintly toothed edges, up to 15 centimeters long, and mostly hairless. The plant produces an inflorescence generally 25 centimeters to half a meter tall consisting of a solitary flower head or an array of up to three heads. The head is bell-shaped, sometimes widely so. It contains many orange to red-orange disc florets each about a centimeter long, and a fringe of several orange or reddish ray florets each up to 2 centimeters in length. The fruit is a long, narrow achene which may be 2 centimeters in length including its pappus of plumelike bristles.

Raillardella pringlei
Conservation status
Imperiled  (NatureServe)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Genus:	Raillardella
Species:	R. pringlei
Binomial name
Raillardella pringlei Greene