''Chrysactinia pinnata,'' is a Mexican species of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae. It is native to northeastern Mexico, the states of

Coahuila Coahuila (), formally Coahuila de Zaragoza (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Coahuila de Zaragoza ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Coahuila de Zaragoza), is one of the 32 states of Mexico. Coahuila borders the Mexican states of N ...

Nuevo León Nuevo León () is a state in the northeast region of Mexico. The state was named after the New Kingdom of León, an administrative territory from the Viceroyalty of New Spain, itself was named after the historic Spanish Kingdom of León. With a ...

Querétaro Querétaro (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Querétaro ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Querétaro, links=no; Otomi language, Otomi: ''Hyodi Ndämxei''), is one of the Political divisions of Mexico, 32 federal entities of Mexico. I ...

San Luis Potosí San Luis Potosí (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of San Luis Potosí ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de San Luis Potosí), is one of the 32 states which compose the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 58 municipalities and i ...

, and Tamaulipas.José Luis Villaseñor y María del Rosario Redonda–Martínez. 2009. El género ''Chrysactinia'' (Asteraceae, tribu Tageteae) en México. Revista mexicana de biodiversidad 80(1)
in Spanish with line drawings and distribution maps ''Chrysactinia pinnata'' is a shrub up to 80 cm (32 inches) tall. Leaves are pinnately lobed.

Flower heads A pseudanthium (Greek for "false flower"; ) is an inflorescence that resembles a flower. The word is sometimes used for other structures that are neither a true flower nor a true inflorescence. Examples of pseudanthia include flower heads, compos ...

have yellow ray flowers and yellow-orange disc flowers. Achenes are black. The species grows in forests and

chaparral Chaparral ( ) is a shrubland plant community and geographical feature found primarily in the U.S. state of California, in southern Oregon, and in the northern portion of the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico. It is shaped by a Mediterranean c ...

brushlands.Watson, Sereno 1890. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 25: 154–155
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Photo of herbarium specimen collected in Nuevo León, isotype of ''Chrysactinia pinnata''
Flora of Northeastern Mexico Tageteae Plants described in 1890 {{Asteroideae-stub