Chrysopsis linearifolia
narrowleaf goldenaster
erect (often reddish purple), usually simple, glabrous.
basal blades oblanceolate to linear, 15–70 × 1–7 mm, faces glabrous or densely woolly;
proximal cauline often becoming black and twisted;
cauline blades linear or linear-lanceolate to oblong, flat, slightly undulate, or twisted, bases tapering to rounded, margins entire, eciliate, occasionally undulate, apices acute, faces glabrous.
2–8 cm, glabrous;
bracteoles 1–3, linear, glabrous.
campanulate, 6–10(–12) mm.
10–30;
laminae 9–12 mm.
35–60;
corollas 5–6 mm, lobes 0.5–1 mm.
in 4–5 series, erect, linear-lanceolate, unequal, 0.6–1.1 mm wide, apices, acute-appressed, acuminate to long-acuminate, faces glabrous, bases of outer sparsely stipitate-glandular.
(4–)20–100 in subumbelliform to compact, paniculiform or loosely open corymbiform arrays.
(stramineous) 2–2.5 mm, 2–6-ridged (ridges golden yellow to red-brown, translucent, clavate), weakly ribbed, faces sparsely strigose to sometimes only proximally so;
pappi in 3 series, outer of linear to narrowly triangular scales 0.5–1 mm, inner of 20–35 bristles 4–6 mm, inner moderately clavate.
= 10.
Chrysopsis linearifolia
Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).
Chrysopsis linearifolia is disjunct between the central and western panhandle and the central peninsula.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Heads 20–100, in compact subumbelliform to paniculiform arrays; stems often dark purple, 30–200 cm; leaves numerous (to 200 on tall plants), linear to narrowly linear (lengths more than 10 times widths), flat or slightly undulate or twisted; panhandle Florida 9a. Chrysopsis linearifolia subsp. linearifolia | → 1 |
1. Heads 4–30(–50) in open corymbiform arrays; stems 30–80 cm, green to dark purple; leaves less numerous (to 100 on tall plants), linear to linear-lanceolate or elliptic, sometimes undulate, strongly twisted; c, w peninsular Florida | subsp. dressii |
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