Taxon	Illustrator ⠉
	Chaenactis douglasii var. douglasii Chaenactis douglasii var. alpina Chaenactis xantiana Chaenactis stevioides Orochaenactis thysanocarpha	Linny Heagy Linny Heagy Linny Heagy Linny Heagy John Myers

Annuals, 1–25 cm. Stems erect to spreading, simple or ± branched (very slender). Leaves cauline; opposite (proximal) or alternate; obscurely petiolate or sessile; blades linear to narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, margins entire, faces tomentose to glabrate, glanddotted. Heads discoid, borne singly or (2–5) in clusters (at stem tips). Involucres cylindric or narrowly turbinate, 3–4 (–6) mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, 4–7 in ± 1 series (distinct, oblong, unequal, glandular-puberulent). Receptacles ± flat, ± knobby, epaleate. Ray-florets 0. Disc-florets 4–9; corollas yellow, lobes 5, short-triangular (anther bases short-sagittate, appendages short-triangular; style-branches linear, tapering). Cypselae terete, linear-clavate, narrowly ribbed, minutely glandular-puberulent, glabrescent; pappi falling (in rings), of 11–17 (basally connate) oblanceolate, fringed, obtuse scales. x = 9.

Distribution

Calif.

Discussion

Species 1.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Orochaenactis thysanocarpha