Stephanomeria tenuifolia, the narrow-leaved wire-lettuce or narrow leaved stephanomeria, is a perennial plant in the family Asteraceae that grows in the Great Basin of the western United States.[1] It has five ray flowers that give it the appearance of being petals of a single flower of a plant in another plant family.[1]
It grows with much branching from NaNfeetto2feetft (toft).[1]
Leaves are threadlike.
The inflorescence is a head with 5 square-tipped, petal-like ray flowers and sepal-like phyllaries.[1]
Fruits are seeds attached to parachute-like pappi.[1]
Narrow leaved stephanomeria grows in the plains and dry slopes in sagebrush steppe, mixed conifer, and mountain shrub communities in the Great Basin.[1] In California it can be found in sagebrush scrub, Northern juniper woodland, yellow pine forest, red fir forest, lodgepole forest, and subalpine forest plant communities.[2]