Rosilla

Helenium puberulum DC. Prodr. 5: 667. 1836
Cephalophora decurrens Less. Linnaea 6: 517. 1831.
Helenium pubescens H. & A. Bot. Beech. Voy. 355. 1838. Not //. pubescens Ait. 1789.
Helenium californicum Link, Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 1840: 21. 1840.
? Helenium Rosilla Turcz. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 24': 186. 1841. Helenium mexicanum A. Cray, in Ton. Pacif. R. K. Rep. 4: 107. 1857. Not //. mexicanum II H
K. 1820. Helenium decurrens Vatkc, Ind. Sem. Ilort. Berol. 1875: App. 1875. Not Helenia decurrens
Moench. 1794. Heleniastrum puberulum Kimt/c, Rev. Gen. 342. 1891.
A stout annual; stem 5-10 dm. high, angled, puberulent, branched above; basal leaves oblanceolate, 1-2 dm. long, 3-4 cm. wide, puberulent, entire or denticulate; upper stemleaves linear-lanceolate, attenuate; peduncles 5-20 cm. long; bracts subulate, 8-10 mm. long, hirsute; ray-flowers pistillate; ligules yellow, 4-6 mm. long, 3-5 mm. wide; disk brownishyellow to purplish-brown, 12-18 mm. broad when mature; corollas 2.5-3 mm. long; tube a mere ring; throat elongate-campanulate; achenes fully 1.5 mm. long, hispidulous on the angles; squamellae 1 mm. long, ovate or lanceolate, awn-tipped.
Typk locality: California.
DISTRIBUTION: California and northern Lower California.