Chrysoma

Chrysoma is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.[3][4][5][1]

Chrysoma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Asteroideae
Tribe: Astereae
Subtribe: Solidagininae
Genus: Chrysoma
Nutt.
Species:
C. pauciflosculosa
Binomial name
Chrysoma pauciflosculosa
(Michx.) Greene
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Solidago pauciflosculosa Michx.
  • Aster pauciflosculosus (Michx.) Kuntze
  • Aplactis paniculata Raf.
  • Chrysoma solidaginoides Nutt.

Species

More than 20 species names have been created in the genus, most of them now transferred to other genera (Ericameria, Xylothamia, Solidago, Gundlachia). Only one remains, Chrysoma pauciflosculosa, native to the southeastern United States (Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, North Carolina).[6] Chrysoma pauciflosculosa is a branching, evergreen shrub up to 100 cm (39 in) tall, with resin but no hairs. Flower heads are yellow, in dense, flat-topped arrays of many small heads, sometimes with no ray florets but sometimes with 2 or 3 ray florets, plus 2-5 disc florets.[7]

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