Hymenoxys brandegei (Porter ex Gray) Parker

Rydbergia brandegei (Porter) Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 33: 156
1906".
Actinella grandiflora glabrala Porter; Porter & Coult. Syn. Fl. Colo. 76. 1S74. Actinella Brandegei Porter; A. Gray, Proc Am. Acad. 13: 373. 1878. Rydbergia glabrala Greene, Pittonia 3: 270. 1898.
A perennial, with a tap-root and a somewhat cespitose caudex; stem solitary from each
branch of the caudex, 1-2 dm. high, sparingly villous; leaves 5-10 cm. long, either entire and
linear or 3-parted into linear divisions, glabrate or sparingly hairy; peduncles 3-7 cm. long,
somewhat villous; involucre depressed-hemispheric, densely brownvillous, 1.5-2 cm. broad;
bracts linear, attenuate; ligules 10-18 mm. long, 4-5 mm. wide; disk-corollas 4 mm. long;
achenes 3 mm. long; squamellae lead-colored, about 2 mm. long, linear-lanceolate, attenuate.
Type locality: Sangre de Cristo Pass, Colorado. Distribution: Southern Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona.