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Genus

Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis DC

Prostrate to erect shrubs or erect herbs with small, somewhat sticky (not wooly) leaves.  Plants dioecious (individual plants bear either pistillate flowers or staminate flowers, but not both); floral heads disciform; ligules (petal-like corollas) absent.

Of the 250-400 species of this genus, nine occur in California:

Baccharis brachyphylla A. Gray
Baccharis douglasii DC
Baccharis emoryi A. Gray
Baccharis pilularis DC
Baccharis plummerae A. Gray
Baccharis salicifolia (Ruis Lopez & Pavon)
Baccharis sarothroides A. Gray
Baccharis sergiloides A. Gray
Baccharis vanessae Beauch.