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HAIRY GOLDEN-ASTER 



Chrysop'sis villo'sa, syns. C. a'rida, C. asprel'la, C. ba'keri, C. but'leri 



Flower heads short-stalked, solitary 

 or few, in somewhat flat-topped clusters 

 at ends of upper branches 



Bracts in a series '(involucre) -around 

 base of flower head, linear, overlapping, 

 usually rather densely hairy 



Stems erect, 5 to 24 in. high, 

 branched, leafy, hairy with coarse, 

 stiff hairs 



Leaves alternate, usually spatula- 

 shaped, 1 to 2 in. long, grayish green, 

 hairy with rather coarse, stiff , oppressed 

 hairs, often stalked below 



Outside (ray) flowers of heads yellow, 

 petal-like, seed-producing 



Inner (disk) flowers of heads small, 

 yellow, tubular, numerous, perfect, 

 seed-producing 



"Seeds" (achenes) flattened, soft- 

 hairy (villous), crowned by 2 rows of 

 slender, yellowish bristles; outer row of 

 bristles smaller and shorter than inner 



Taproot woody, perennial, with thick- 

 ened, somewhat branched root crown 



Hairy golden-aster, a perennial herb of the composite, or aster, 

 family (Compositae), is an abundant and highly characteristic west- 

 ern species of this small North American genus. It is common on 



