Chrysoma


Chrysoma is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family.

Species

More than 20 species names have been created in the genus, most of them now transferred to other genera . Only one remains, Chrysoma pauciflosculosa, native to the southeastern United States. Chrysoma pauciflosculosa is a branching, evergreen shrub up to tall, with resin but no hairs. Flower heads are yellow, in dense, flat-topped arrays of many small heads, sometimes with no ray florets but sometimes with 2 or 3 ray florets, plus 2-5 disc florets.