B55 



LANCELEAF YELLOWBRUSH 



Chrysotham'nus lanceola'tus 



Flowers of head all alike, small, yellow, tubu- 

 lar, 5-toothed, perfect, seed-producing, hairless, 

 slightly sticky 



Bracts in a somewhat vertically ranked series 

 (involucre) around flower head, pale greenish 

 yellow, dry, firm, faintly keeled; lower bracts 

 lance-shaped; upper, oblong 



Flower heads small, 6- to 8-flowered, in flat 

 or round-topped clusters (cymes) at tips of the 

 densely fine-hairy branches 



f** "Seed" (achene) small (about % in. long when 

 mature), faintly 5-angIed,. narrowed at base, 

 densely white-hairy, crowned by ring of some- 

 what rigid, tawny bristles (pappus) 



Leaves alternate, bright green, flat, usually 

 somewhat twisted, linear-lance-shaped, 1 to 1& 

 in. long and % to % in. wide, 3- to 5->veined, short- 

 rough-hairy 



Stems woody near base, ridged, pale greenish 

 white, almost round, soft-short-hairy at least 

 when young 



Taproot -thickened, deep, woody 



