A handsome, desert plant, with rough, purplish stems, a foot and a half tall, dull-green, hairy leaves, and flowers over an inch across, in loose clusters, with bright golden-yellow rays, yellow centers, and woolly involucres. This makes fine conspicuous clumps of bright color on the pale desert sand.

Golden Hills-Enceliafarinosa. Encelia-E.epiocephala. SUNFLOWER FAMILY. Compositae.