Heterotheca villosa(Pursh) Shinners [family ASTERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by John Cameron Semple, Chrysopsis mollisNutt. [family ASTERACEAE ] Verified by John Cameron Semple,
Related name
Heterotheca pumila
Chrysopsis pedunculata
Chrysopsis cooperii
Chrysopsis villosa
Chrysopsis bakeri
Heterotheca
Chrysopsis compacta
Chrysopsis arida
Chrysopsis horrida
Chrysopsis wisconsinensis
Chrysopsis floribunda
Heterotheca fulcrata
Chrysopsis imbricata
Chrysopsis amplifolia
Chrysopsis caudata
Chrysopsis hirsutissima
Heterotheca horrida
Diplopappus hispidus
Chrysopsis cooperi
Heterotheca villosa
Chrysopsis asprella
Chrysopsis mollis
Chrysopsis
Common name
White Mountains hairy goldenaster, Flora of North America Vol. 20
Flora
Entry for Heterotheca villosa (Pursh) Shinners var. villosa [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 20,
Names
Heterotheca villosa(Pursh) Shinners var. villosa [family COMPOSITAE]
Chrysopsis mollisNuttall [family COMPOSITAE]
Treatment Author(s)
John C. Semple
Information
Stems decumbent to erect, 16–39 cm, moderately to densely strigose, sparsely to abundantly long-hirsute, eglandular or sparsely stipitate-glandular. Distal cauline leaf blades oblanceolate, 21–35 × 3.5–6 mm, bases narrowly cuneate to attenuate, margins flat, apices acute, faces moderately strigose (20–60 hairs/mm2), eglandular or sparsely stipitate-glandular. Heads 1–12(–25). Peduncles (5–)12–47(–67) mm, sparsely to densely hispido-strigose, eglandular; bracts subtending heads usually none, rarely linear-oblanceolate, leaflike. Involucres narrowly cylindric to campanulate (fresh), (5–)6–9(–11) mm. Phyllaries narrowly triangular-lanceolate, margins usually reddish purple distally, faces moderately to densely strigose, eglandular. Ray florets 10–27(–38), laminae (6.5–)8.5–15(–20) mm. 2n = 18, 36.
Variety villosa grows primarily in the Great Plains region; it is rare in Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, and Oregon, and represented in Michigan and southern Ontario by chance introduction.
