Wyethia
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Wyethia helenioides
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Wyethia is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family commonly referred to as mule's ears. These are short, low to the ground golden-rayed wildflowers that resemble miniature sunflowers.
Selected species:
- Wyethia amplexicaulis - northern mule's ears, black sunflower
- Wyethia angustifolia - California compassplant, narrowleaf wyethia
- Wyethia arizonica - Arizona mule's ears
- Wyethia glabra - Coast Range mule's ears
- Wyethia helenioides - gray mule's ears, whitehead mule's ears
- Wyethia helianthoides - sunflower mule's ears
- Wyethia longicaulis - Humboldt mule's ears
- Wyethia mollis - woolly mule's ears

