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]: 60 It has five ray flowers that give it the appearance of being petals of a single flower of a plant in another plant family.
The inflorescence is a head with 5 square-tipped, petal-like ray flowers and sepal-like phyllaries.
[1]: 60 Fruits are seeds attached to parachute-like pappi.
[1]: 60 Narrow leaved stephanomeria grows in the plains and dry slopes in sagebrush steppe, mixed conifer, and mountain shrub communities in the Great Basin.