Eastwoodia
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The monotypic plant genus Eastwoodia contains the single species Eastwoodia elegans, a flower known by the common name yellow mock aster or yellow aster. It is endemic to California. It is a shrub which sends up several erect stems, each bearing a rounded, bright yellow flower. The stems have a shreddy bark and small leaves. This plant is found only on the grasslands and hillsides of central California, from the Bay Area
south to the Tehachapis
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The genus was named for the American botanist Alice Eastwood
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San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a populated region that surrounds the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses metropolitan areas of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, along with smaller urban and rural areas...
south to the Tehachapis
Tehachapi Mountains
The Tehachapi Mountains , regionally also called The Tehachapis, are a mountain range in the Transverse Ranges system of California in the Western United States...
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The genus was named for the American botanist Alice Eastwood
Alice Eastwood
Alice Eastwood was a Canadian American botanist. Born in Toronto, she moved to the United States at 14, and from age twenty to thirty, was a teacher in Denver, Colorado and taught herself botany. In 1890 she assumed a post in the herbarium at the California Academy of Sciences...
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