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hairy goldenaster

Habit Plants perennial, 1–5+ dm; taprooted.
Stems

not woody at base;

surfaces lightly or densely pilose to strigose-hispid or tomentose, minutely glandular or not.

Leaves

1–6 cm, linear, broadly or narrowly lanceolate, oblanceolate, or oblong;

surfaces strigillose or silky-puberulent, sometimes hispid, minutely glandular or not, proximally petiolate to distally sessile.

Involucres

5–10 mm.

Ray florets

(7)10–30(35);

corollas 4–11 mm.

Disc florets

10–50+;

corollas 5–6 mm.

Phyllaries

in 4–7 series; outer linear or elongatetriangular to lanceolate;

surfaces usually strigillose; inner linear;

surfaces glabrous to strigillose or hispid, sometimes minutely glandular.

Fruits

2–4 mm, strigillose-silky;

pappus scales linear, 0.3–1 mm;

bristles 6–7 mm; yellowish or brownish.

Heads

1–16(40), radiate;

peduncles 1–5 cm.

2n

=18, 36.

Heterotheca villosa

Distribution
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Discussion

North America. 8–9 varieties; 2 varieties treated in Flora.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 286
Kenton Chambers
Sibling taxa
H. oregona
Subordinate taxa
H. villosa var. minor, H. villosa var. villosa
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