Chrysopsis floridana

Small

Fl. S.E. U.S., 1183, 1339. 1903.

Common names: Florida goldenaster
EndemicConservation concern
Synonyms: Chrysopsis mariana var. floridana (Small) Fernald Heterotheca floridana (Small) R. W. Long Heterotheca mariana subsp. floridana (Small) V. L. Harms
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 20. Treatment on page 216. Mentioned on page 215.

Perennials or subshrubs, 30–70 cm; fibrous-rooted or rhizomatous (new rosettes from bases of old shoots, additional rosettes at ends of short lateral rhizomes or roots). Stems erect or ascending, sometimes branched, densely short-woolly. Leaves: basal blades spatulate to oblanceolate, 40–100 × 15–25 mm, margins entire or apically dentate, faces densely short-woolly; cauline blades obovate to oblanceolate, gradually or hardly reduced distally, bases cuneate to slightly auriculate-clasping, margins entire, sometimes undulate, cilia rarely more than 1 mm, apices mucronulate, faces densely appressed-tomentose, sparsely stipitate-glandular (glands hidden by hair). Heads 1–25+ in subumbelliform to paniculiform arrays (proximal branches sometimes also flowering). Peduncles 1–4 cm, densely stipitate-glandular; bracteoles 0–4, lineaer to oblanceolate, proximally woolly, stipitate-glandular distally. Involucres (yellow-green in bud) campanulate, 5–8 mm. Phyllaries in 3–4 series, erect, linear, unequal, 0.6–1 mm wide, apices sharply acute or acuminate to aristate, faces stipitate-glandular. Ray-florets 15–20; laminae 6–8 × 1.5–2.5 mm. Disc-florets 25–35; corollas 6–7 mm, lobes 0.5 mm. Cypselae 2–2.5 mm, without ridges, smooth or faintly ribbed, moderately strigose; pappi in 3 series, outer of linear scales 0.5–1 mm, inner of 25–30 bristles 5–6 mm, inner weakly clavate. 2n = 10.


Phenology: Flowering mid to late fall.
Habitat: Sand pine–evergreen oak scrub, very well drained, fine, white sands
Elevation: 0–30 m

Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Chrysopsis floridana is found in Hardee, Hillsborough, Manatee, and Pinellas counties. It has been subject to habitat destruction at most historic sites. It is listed as endangered in the Federal Register and is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

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... more about "Chrysopsis floridana"
not tailed +, rounded +  and obtuse +
distinct +
acuminate;aristate +
subequal +
scarious +
usually triangular +  and linear +
usually deltate +  and lanceolate +
subumbelliform +  and paniculiform +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
John C. Semple +
4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br /> (10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br />) +
spatulate +  and oblanceolate +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
auriculate-clasping +
cuneate +
compound +  and simple +
rugulose +  and muricate +
stipitate-glandular +  and woolly +
oblanceolate +
whitish +  and stramineous +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
obovate +  and oblanceolate +
Florida goldenaster +
not 2-lipped +  and actinomorphic +
ampliate +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
ribbed +  and smooth +
2-10-ridged +, compressed +  and obconic +
fertile +  and bisexual +
fertile +  and bisexual +
0–30 m +
gland-dotted +
stipitate-glandular +, appressed-tomentose +  and short-woolly +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
Sand pine–evergreen oak scrub, very well drained, fine, white sands +
fibrous-rooted +  and taprooted +
flagelliform +
indeterminate +
heterogamous +  and homogamous +
each +  and sessile +
campanulate +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
1.5mm;2.5mm +
cauline +  and basal +
triangular +
entire +  and dentate +
undulate +
2-carpellate +
persistent +
stipitate-glandular +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
Flowering mid to late fall. +
foliaceous +  and 1-nerved +
linear-lanceolate +  and oblanceolate +
0.06 cm0.6 mm <br />6.0e-4 m <br /> (0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br />) +
Fl. S.E. U.S., +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
linear +  and narrowly triangular +
0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br /> (0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br />) +
exalbuminous +
Endemic +  and Conservation concern +
decumbent +  and procumbent +
ascending +  and erect +
short-woolly +
appendaged +  and truncate +
papillate +  and smooth +
Chrysopsis mariana var. floridana +, Heterotheca floridana +  and Heterotheca mariana subsp. floridana +
Chrysopsis floridana +
Chrysopsis +
species +
rhizomatous +  and fibrous-rooted +
110 cm1,100 mm <br />1.1 m <br /> (150 cm1,500 mm <br />1.5 m <br />) +
30 cm300 mm <br />0.3 m <br /> (70 cm700 mm <br />0.7 m <br />) +
rhizomatous +  and fibrous-rooted +
9 +, 4 +  and 5 +