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Family Asteraceae
Packera pseudaurea (Rydb.) W.A.Weber & A.Löve var. semicordata (Mack. & Bush) D.K.Trock & T.M.Barkley
false-gold groundsel, heart-leaved groundsel, western golden ragwort
Packera: after John G. Packer, a Canadian biosystematist
pseudaurea: false gold
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| Status: | Native |
| Plant: | perennial forb; stems usually solitary; erect, often unbranched rhizomes |
| Flower: | head 1/2"-1" wide with 0, 8 or 13 yellow rays more than 1/4" long; bracts (phyllaries) light green; inflorescence clusters of several to many heads; blooms May-July |
| Fruit: | dry seed on fluffy pappus |
| Leaf: | basal leaves narrowly-oval, not tapering to the stalk, more than 1 1/2 times as long as wide with blunt teeth; stem leaves getting smaller toward the top and sometimes clasping |
| Habitat: | sun; moist; prairies |
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