''Chrysopsis godfreyi'', or Godfrey's goldenaster, is a
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...
n species of flowering plant in the family
Asteraceae. It is native to the states of
Florida and
Alabama in the
southeastern United States.
''Chrysopsis godfreyi'' is an herb up to 50 cm (20 inches) tall, with a large
taproot and most of its leaves in a
rosette close to the ground. It produces numerous yellow
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 ...
in large arrays, each head having both
ray florets and
disc florets. The species grows on sand dunes and other sandy areas along the
Gulf Coast in southern
Alabama and in the
Florida Panhandle
The Florida Panhandle (also West Florida and Northwest Florida) is the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Florida; it is a Salient (geography), salient roughly long and wide, lying between Alabama on the north and the west, Georgia (U. ...
.
[Semple, John Cameron 1978. Canadian Journal of Botany 56(17): 2092–2096]
References
External links
Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants
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godfreyi
Endemic flora of the United States
Flora of Alabama
Flora of Florida
Plants described in 1978
Taxa named by John Cameron Semple