Wyethia Helenoides

Abstract

Wyethia helenoides is a short, low growing golden-rayed wildflower, that resemble sunflowers. Wyethia helenoides is a species of flowering plants in the sunflower family commonly referred to as gray mule's ears or whitehead mule-ears. Typical understory associates in sunny clearings of mixed oak forests in coastal California. This species occurs chiefly in the California Coast Ranges, Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges, and some areas of the Sierra Nevada foothills in California. The present review attempts to encompass the available literature on Wyethia helenoides with respect to its description, Scientific classification, summary of its various homoeopathic uses.