Helenium amarum var. badium (A. Gray ex S. Wats.) Waterfall

Helenium badium (A. Gray) Greene, Pittonia 5: 55. 1902
Helenium tenuifolium badium A. Gray; S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 18: 108. 1883.
A glabrous leafy annual; stem 2-4 dm. high, branched above; lower leaves 4-5 cm. long, pinnatifid into linear divisions, glabrous; upper leaves linear-filiform; heads corymbose; involucre about 1 cm. broad; bracts lanceolate, attenuate; receptacle depressed-hemispheric; ray-flowers pistillate; ligules yellow, pubescent, 4-7 mm. long, 3-5 mm. wide; disk globose, 5-8 mm. broad; corollas purplish-brown, 2-2.5 mm. long; tube a minute ring; throat campanulate; achenes scarcely 1 mm. long, hispid on the angles; squamellae ovate, produced into an awn of nearly the same length.
Type locality: Bluffton, Texas. Distribution: Texas and Oklahoma.