Chrysocephalum vitellinum

Erect annual 5–15(–30) cm high; stems and branches usually cottony or cobwebbed. Leaves mostly broad-spathulate, 1–4 cm long, 3–10 mm wide, acute to obtuse, apiculate, base stem-clasping, margins entire or sometimes irregularly and distantly toothed, finely undulate, surfaces cottony, sometimes more densely beneath. Capitula 3–many, often in corymbose clusters, campanulate, 7–10 mm diam.; involucre c. 10-seriate, 4–8 mm long; outer bracts scarious, sessile, wholly golden-yellow or tinged brown; intermediate involucral bracts longest, erect, long-clawed, c. as long as florets. Florets female and bisexual. Cypselas 0.5–1 mm long; pappus 2–3 mm long, yellow. Flowers mostly spring and summer.