Description: Short, dense shrub with many yellow sunflower-like flower heads 
Height: To 3 ft 
Flowers: Terminal heads with yellow ray and disk flowers; flowers quickly after rainfall anytime of year 
Fruit: Achene (like sunflower seed) 
Foliage: Simple, alternate, drought-deciduous, narrow strip of blade along midrib and a couple of skinny lobes 
Spines: Unarmed 
Bark: Gray, older stems develop narrow ridges and shallow fissures 
Growth Rate: Fast 

Requirements: 
Sun: Full 
Soil: Sandy loam, caliche, gravelly 
Drainage: Well 
Water: Low, drought tolerant 
Maintenance: Water increases flowering and leafing 
Propagation: Seed, softwood cuttings 

Native Habitat: Chaparral openings 

Wildlife Use: Nectar - Butterflies Leaves - Cattle and deer 

Comments: One of the lower Rio Grande Valley's most attractive shrubs to butterflies and human eyes