Annuals, to 30(–70) cm. Stems erect, usually branched. Leaves cauline; mostly alternate; usually petiolate; blades usually 1–2-pinnately lobed, sometimes 3-lobed or entire, faces sparsely to moderately woolly. Heads radiate, borne singly. Involucres hemispheric, 5–9 mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, (3–)8 in 1 series (± erect in fruit, connate at bases or to 1/2 their lengths, elliptic, lanceolate, or oblanceolate, equal, margins somewhat hyaline, apices acute to acuminate, abaxial faces usually woolly). Receptacles conic to hemispheric, pitted or smooth, glabrous, epaleate. Ray florets (3–)8, pistillate, fertile; corollas yellow (with rings of hairs at bases of laminae). Disc florets 8–25+, bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow (with rings of hairs at bases of limbs), tubes shorter than funnelform or cylindric throats, lobes 5, ± deltate (anther appendages deltate, widest at bases, glandular; style-branch appendages deltate). Cypselae ± obcompressed, 3–4-angled and obpyramidal to clavate, hairy or glabrate; pappi 0, or coroniform (minute scales). x = 4.

Distribution

Calif.

Discussion

Species 3 (3 in the flora).

B. G. Baldwin and B. L. Wessa (2000) found that Pseudobahia bahiifolia and P. peirsonii nest within a clade of Eriophyllum and Syntrichopappus species; circumscriptions of these genera are likely to change.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Pseudobahia bahiifolia, Pseudobahia heermannii, Pseudobahia peirsonii

Key

1	Leaves entire or 3-lobed	Pseudobahia bahiifolia
1	Leaves mostly 1–2-pinnately lobed	> 2
2	Leaves mostly 1-pinnately lobed; phyllaries connate to 1/2 their lengths	Pseudobahia heermannii
2	Leaves mostly 2-pinnately lobed (except in smaller plants); phyllaries connate at bases	Pseudobahia peirsonii