Microseris laciniata(Hook.) Sch.Bip.

cutleaf silverpuffs

WFO wfo-0000127757 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Microseris laciniata, photographed by Sean Haight
fig. a Sean Haight, CC0 1.0 / 2021-05-27 / obs. 131952530
Microseris laciniata, photographed by Don Boucher
fig. b Don Boucher, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 44171638
Microseris laciniata, photographed by Don Boucher
fig. c Don Boucher, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 44171646
Microseris laciniata, photographed by Jared Shorma
fig. d Jared Shorma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138467184
Microseris laciniata, photographed by Sean Haight
fig. e Sean Haight, CC0 1.0 / obs. 131952470
Microseris laciniata, photographed by Jared Shorma
fig. f Jared Shorma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138467146
Microseris laciniata, photographed by Sean Haight
fig. g Sean Haight, CC0 1.0 / obs. 131952507
Microseris laciniata, photographed by Jared Shorma
fig. h Jared Shorma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138467113

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Microseris laciniata is native: California, Oregon, Washington CaliforniaOregonWashington
Native distribution of Microseris laciniata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
California CAL NORTHERN AMERICA
Oregon ORE
Washington WAS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 28 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Calais bolanderi A.Gray
  • Calais glauca (Hook.) A.Gray
  • Calais glauca var. glauca
  • Calais glauca var. procera A.Gray
  • Calais laciniata (Hook.) A.Gray
  • Hymenonema glauca Hook.
  • Hymenonema laciniata Hook.
  • Hymenonema laciniatum Hook.
  • Microseris bolanderi A.Gray
  • Microseris leptosepala A.Gray
  • Microseris nutans subsp. siskiyouensis K.L.Chambers
  • Microseris procera A.Gray
  • Scorzonella arguta Drew
  • Scorzonella bolanderi Greene
  • Scorzonella glauca Nutt.
  • Scorzonella laciniata (Hook.) Nutt.
  • Scorzonella laciniata (Hook.) Sch.Bip.
  • Scorzonella laciniata var. bolanderi (A.Gray) Jeps.
  • Scorzonella laciniata var. laciniata
  • Scorzonella laciniata var. pratensis (Greene) Jeps.
  • Scorzonella leachiana M.Peck
  • Scorzonella leptosepala Nutt.
  • Scorzonella maxima Bioletti
  • Scorzonella megacephala Greene

and 4 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.