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Hulsea
Hulsea is a small genus of North American flowering plants in the family Asteraceae known commonly as alpinegold.
Alpinegolds are annual or perennial herbs native to western North America. They produce stout erect stems which may be fuzzy, hairy, or quite woolly. They are leafy, especially toward the base of the stem. At the top of the stem, they bear small daisylike flower heads, with ray florets in shades of yellow to reddish-orange around a center packed with disc florets. The fruits are generally hard and black with a pappus.
7 branches of this genus, most-observed first

pumice alpinegold
speciesHulsea vestita

Alpine Gold
speciesHulsea algida

redray alpinegold
speciesHulsea heterochroma

little hulsea
speciesHulsea nana

mexican hulsea
speciesHulsea mexicana

shortleaved hulsea
speciesHulsea brevifolia

San Diego sunflower
speciesHulsea californica
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 48930.