Verbesina encelioides

Family: Asteraceae
Common Name: golden crownbeard
Symbol: VEEN
Description: Annual herbs, 20-100 cm tall, from a taproot; stems erect, strigose to villous-puberulent, unbranched when small and branched throughout when well developed. Leaves alternate along the stems, occasionally opposite near base of plants; blades narrowly to broadly triangular or lanceolate, the margins coarsely toothed, lobed, the surfaces strigose, lower surface hairier than the upper.Flower heads showy, yellow, radiate, at branch tips on peduncles up to 10 cm long, sometimes numerous in terminal panicles. Swales, disturbed sites; 10-2500 m.