Flora of North America species comparison

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Heliomeris multiflora

showy false goldeneye, showy goldeneye
Habit Perennials, 20–120+ cm (caudices woody).
Stems

strigose or puberulent to glabrate.
Leaves

opposite or alternate;

blades elliptic, lance-linear, lance-ovate, linear, or ovate, 10–90 × 2–28 mm, margins ciliate to 1/4 their lengths, hairs mostly less than 0.5 mm, faces strigose, abaxial often gland-dotted.
Peduncles

1–15 cm, lengths 1/20–1/2 leafy portions of stems.
Involucres

6–14 mm diam.
Ray florets

5–14;

laminae oval to oblong, 7–20 mm (gland-dotted along veins and abaxially).
Disc florets

50+;

corollas 3–4 mm.
Phyllaries

4–8 mm.
Heads

6–30+.
Cypselae

black or gray-striate, 1.2–3 mm.
Paleae

oblong, 5–6 mm, cuspidate.

Heliomeris multiflora
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; CO; ID; MT; NM; NV; TX; UT; WY; Mexico
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Discussion

Varieties 3 (3 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Key
1. Leaves mostly alternate, blades elliptic to ovate, apices obtuse (often mucronate)
var. brevifolia
1. Leaves mostly opposite, blades lance-ovate, lance-linear, or linear, apices acute
→ 2
2. Leaves lance-ovate to lance-linear, 5–20 mm wide, margins flat
var. multiflora
2. Leaves lance-linear to linear, 2–5 mm wide, margins usually strongly revolute
var. nevadensis
Source FNA vol. 21, p. 171.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Heliantheae > subtribe Helianthinae > Heliomeris
Sibling taxa
H. hispida, H. longifolia, H. soliceps
Subordinate taxa
H. multiflora var. brevifolia, H. multiflora var. multiflora, H. multiflora var. nevadensis
Synonyms Viguiera multiflora
Name authority Nuttall: J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, n. s. 1: 171. (1847)
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