| Description | A wild flower found growing in full sun dry site. |
|---|---|
| Plant Type | All Plants, Wild Flowers |
| Hardiness Zone | 4 |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average, dry |
| Soil & Site | average, dry |
| Flowers | yellow 10-35 petals (ray flowers) |
| Fruit | achene |
| Leaves | green to gray green, stalkless (sessile) can be hairy |
| Stems | sparsely to heavily covered with hair |
| Roots | tap |
| Dimensions | 8-20 inches tall |
| Propagation | seeds |
| Cultivar Origin | First collected by Thomas Nuttall "on the Missouri".in 1814. Nuttall named the plant Chrysopsis villosa in 1836 and was moved to the Heterotheca genus in 1951. |
| Misc Facts | Name derived from "chryos" meaning gold and yellow. Heterotheca: derived from Greek heteros, "different," and theke, "ovary," from the unlike achenes of the ray and disk florets (syn Chrysopsis villosa) |
| Notes & Reference | #191-Minnesota Wild Flowers (www.minnesotawildflowers.info), #152B-The Flora of Wisconsin (wisflora.herbarium.wisc.edu) |
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