Checklist » Asteraceae » Heterotheca villosa var. foliosa
Last updated 11/20/2008 by David Giblin.
Heterotheca villosa (Pursh) Shinners var. foliosa (Nutt.) V.L. Harms[FNA20, HC2]
leafy goldenaster

Publication: Wrightia. 4: 15. 1968.

Origin: Native

selected vouchers: WTU

Notes: Voucher? OR reports in Peck (1961) misapplied (Chambers and Sundberg 2000).

FNA20: "Variety foliosa is most common at the base of the Front Range in Colorado and Wyoming; it occurs scattered across the northern part of its range in the mountains and western prairies. Plants that are glandular but otherwise like var. foliosa are presumed here to be hybrids with either var. minor or var. nana. Variety foliosa is most similar to var. ballardii."

References:

» WA report in 1996 Univ. of Waterloo Biology Series
Synonyms & Misapplied Names:
Chrysopsis villosa (Pursh) Nutt. ex DC. var. foliosa (Nutt.) Cronquist[HC]
Chrysopsis villosa (Pursh) Nutt. ex DC. var. foliosa (Nutt.) D.C. Eaton, orthographic variant