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353 Erect chrysopsidis A. Gray. Golden Daisy. Fig. 5616. 
Chrysopsts hirtella DC. Prod. 5: 237. 1836. Not Erigeron hirtellus ite 1836. 
Erigeron = aoe var. ages A. — te oc. Amer ey ad. 16: 1880. 
Erigeron chrysopsidis A. Gray, Syn, FI. er. 12: 2 1884. 
Erigeron curz ore Piper, Bull. Tairey meat 27: 396, ey as to type only. 
Perennial from a taproot and ns meer 2 caudex, 6-16 cm. tall; a spreading-hairy or the 
pubescence of the leaves occasionally partly appressed. rfpeese all or n arly all in a basal cluster 
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(2)3-9 cm. long =F -3 mm. wide; head solitary, hemisphe i : 
ucr : m. high, s pase reading-hairy and sometimes slightly glandular, the phyllaries sub- 
qual, ow, het or gree ish at bast 4 Rowe the midri en Wi li 
margins, gradu ate Soupinate - pistillate rca a ne the rays bright yellow, . long 
- disk-corollas mo ong; pappus o L 15-25 rel. bristles, com- 
and 1-2.5 mm. wide stly ¢ 
perth with a fw short, tendo: incon ga baler setae; — 
Dry open places, often sagebrush, exten to a litt r 4, As n the ponderosa pine 
a ‘arid Transition a east of the ‘gate ot natn in ‘athata Creme fae ‘Grant (and Crook?) 
Counties a ward, barely extending into southeastern Washington. Type locality: Columbia River. May 
June (Jul 
eireck chrysopsidis var, brevifélius Piper, Bull. Torrey Club as 395. 1900. Smaller in all respects 
r 985 pol asi = Sah ee i = 6(9) cm, tall; basal pri 1- oO ¢ . long: involucre 4-5 mm. high; disk 
wide; dis rollas 3-4 mm. long; pu ubescence of leaves often more or less appressed. Wallow a Moun- 
Bs or Oba pat Ronen altitudes : typical E. chrysopsi sidis. Type locality: Wallowa Mountains. 
Erigeron eharecpsidls subsp, austiniae (Greene) Cronquist, Brittonia 6: 196, 1947. (Erigeron austiniae 
Greene, Erythea 100. 1895.) Pistillate gin ers present but hae tars wanting or at and inconspicuous; other- 
wise resem mahi total E, chrysopsidis or smaller and more peed Be Harn ney, and Malheur Counties, 
Oregon, southward to the vicinity of Mount Tassen California, yer eastward to Twin Falls County, Idaho, and 
Elka County, Nevada. Type locality: Davis Creek, Modoc County, California. 
5616. Erigeron chrysopsi 
