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72. CHRYSOPSIS* (Nutt.) Ell. Bot. S.C. & Ga. 2: 333. 1824. 
Low, oaatrhag ete annual), pubescent herbs, sometimes suffrutescent. Leaves 
alternate, usually entire. Heads radiate or discoid, yellow, medium -sized, jemtilhattng the 
stems and branches. Involucre campanulate to hemispheric; phyll merous, n 
and imbricated. Receptacle low-convex, foveol ay-flowers pistillate, fertile; ligules 
narrow isk-flowers perfect, fertile, slender. Style-branches flattened, th endages 
hairy, elongated, much longer than the sti tic porti blo r obovate, 
less flattened, often twisted. Pappus usually o the of r- 
sh, the inner 
ous capillary bristles, the outer (when present) of short linear scales (or bristles). [Name 
Greek, meaning golden aspect, from the color of the heads. 
A genus of about 20 species, all native in temperate North America. Type species, Chrysopsis mariana 
(L.) Ell. 
Heads radiate; outer ree seat ar sr 1. C. villosa, 
Heads discoid; outer pappu ne or indistinct. 
orolla filiform; pappus leciuiien the involucres by most of its length; mostly below 3,000 feet. 
2. C. oregona. 
Corolla funnelform; pappus oe the involucres by less than half its length; above 4,500 74 
. brewer. 
5432. Amphipappus fremontii 
5433. Acamptopappus 2 eseaeeseatia 
5434. Acamptopappus — kleyi 
5435. Chrysopsis villos 
1. Chrysopsis villésa (Pursh) Nutt. ex DC. Hairy Golden-aster. Fig. 5435. 
. 1836. 
Diplogon villosum Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 1: 334. 1891. 
Gray-green perennial herb with several erect stems from an often more or less woody base 
* Text contributed by David Daniels Keck. 
