Oregon False Golden Aster

Perennials, 15–105 cm; caudices branched. Stems ascending to erect (sometimes ± brittle, sometimes brown), glabrate to densely hispid or densely stipitate-andular (axillary leaf fascicles sometimes present). Leaves: basal and proximal cauline withering by flowering; sessile; mid and distal blades ovate to linear-lanceolate, 12–50 × 4–40 mm, rounded to very weakly clasping, margins flat, strigoso-ciliate, apices acute, faces glabrate to densely hairy and/or stipitate-glandular; branch leaves reduced. Heads (discoid) 1–15 per branch, in corymbiform, openly paniculiform, or racemiform arrays. Peduncles 5–50 mm, sparsely to densely hispid, stipitate-glandular; bracts linear to narrowly lanceolate, 3–9 × 0.5–2 mm. Involucres turbino-cylindric, 7.5–14 mm. Phyllaries in 5–7 series, outer ovate to deltate (2–5 × 0.6–1.7 mm), inner lanceolate, unequal, abaxial faces sparsely to densely hispid or stipitate-glandular (in green zone). Ray florets 0. Disc florets (14–)20–45(–60); corollas ± ampliate, (7.5–)8.5–11(–14) mm, throats and lobes sparsely short-pilose, lobes 0.4–0.9 mm (margins thickened). Cypselae monomorphic, obconic, compressed, 2–5 × 0.35–1.6 mm, ribs 5–10, faces sparsely strigose; pappi tan, outer of linear scales 0.1–0.5 mm (not obvious), inner of 30–40 bristles 4.5–6.4, longest weakly clavate. 2n = 18.

Ammodia oregona Nuttall, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n. s. 7: 321. 1840; Chrysopsis oregona (Nuttall) A. Gray

Heterotheca oregona is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name Oregon false goldenaster. It is native to the west coast of Canada and the United States in British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and California as far south as Los Angeles County.