Bradburia pilosa (Nutt.) J. C. Semple

Bradburia pilosa grows in the western coastal plain province, southwestern central lowlands province, lower elevations of the Ozark Plateau province, and has possibly been introduced at a few locations in the interior low plateau province. It has possibly been introduced at a few sites in Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia, and in Leon County, Florida.

Annuals, 15–80 cm; taprooted. Stems erect, branched distally (rarely at base), sparsely to densely pilose. Leaves: basal oblanceolate, 50–100 × 10–25 mm, margins entire to apically dentate, pilose, apices acute, faces pilose; cauline linear-elliptic, reduced distally to 10 mm or less, margins obscurely dentate or entire. Heads 1–30(–70). Peduncles 1.5–7 cm, short-pilose, sometimes stipitate-glandular distally; bracts foliaceous, grading to linear scales. Phyllaries in 3–4 series, linear, unequal, margins scarious, faces sparsely to densely short- to long-pilose, sparsely glandular. Ray florets (11–)16(–24); laminae 7–12 × 1–2 mm. Disc florets 25–60, bisexual, fertile; corollas 4.5–6 mm, lobes 0.5 mm. Cypselae stramineous to brown, obconic-obovoid, compressed (narrowly elliptic in cross section), smooth or slightly ribbed, faces short-strigose; pappi in 2(–3) series, outer of light tan, flat scales 0.5–1.1 mm, inner 1(–2) of yellow to rust proximally, whitish to tan distally, linear, barbellate bristles 5–6 mm. 2n = 8.

Chrysopsis pilosa Nuttall, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 7: 66. 1834; C. nuttallianum Britton; Diplogon nuttallii Kuntze; Heterotheca pilosa (Nuttall) Shinners

Bradburia pilosa, the soft goldenaster, is a North American species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, native to the south-central United States, primarily the southeastern Great Plains and lower Mississippi Valley, in the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama. Additional populations are reported farther east (from Florida to Virginia) but these appear to be introductions. Its habitats include disturbed roadsides and pine-oak-juniper woods.

Bradburia pilosa is an annual up to 80 cm (32 inches) tall with yellow flower heads. Disc florets are fertile, unlike in the closely related B. hirtella.