Hairy desert-sunflower, desert-gold

Geraea canescens var. paniculata (A. Gray) S. F. Blake

Annuals, 10–80 cm; herbage bristly and/or soft-hairy. Leaves petiolate (proximal) or sessile; blades green or gray, lanceolate or ovate to elliptic or oblanceolate, 1–10 cm, bases tapering to wings, margins entire or dentate, apices acute, faces ± canescent. Heads borne singly or in paniculiform arrays. Involucres 7–12 mm. Phyllaries green, narrowly lanceolate to linear (margins shaggy-ciliate), apices acute. Ray florets 10–21; laminae 1–2 cm. Disc corollas 4–5 mm. Cypselae 6–7 mm; pappi 3–4 mm. 2n = 36.

Flowering Oct–May. Sandy desert soils; 0–1300 m; Ariz., Calif., Nev., Utah; Mexico (Baja California, Sonora).