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|accepted_name=Hulsea
|accepted_authority=Torrey & A. Gray in War Department [U.S.]
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in War Department[U.S.], Pacif. Railr. Rep.
|place=6(3): 77, plate 13. 1858 ·
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae;Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Chaenactidinae;Hulsea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Chaenactidinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Hulsea]]</div></div>
|etymology=Alpinegold [For Gilbert White Hulse, 1807–1883, physician and plant collector
|volume=Volume 21
|mention_page=page 5, 255, 364, 365, 366
|treatment_page=page 396
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>or perennials, 5–150 cm. <b>Stems</b> erect, simple or branched (aerial shoots often from subterranean caudices). <b>Leaves</b> basal or basal and cauline, proximally whorled, distally alternate; petiolate (at least basal) or sessile; blades mostly lance-linear, oblanceolate, ovate, or spatulate, margins entire, lobed, or toothed, faces thinly lanate to densely woolly (hairs crisped, tangled, or matted, usually 0.8+ mm) and/or gland-dotted, glandular-puberulent, glandular-villous, or stipitate-glandular. <b>Heads</b> radiate, borne singly or in corymbiform arrays. <b>Involucres</b> obconic to hemispheric, 8–26 mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> persistent, 14–35(–60+) in 2–4 series (reflexed in fruit, mostly lance-ovate to lanceolate or linear, herbaceous). <b>Receptacles</b> flat, knobby or pitted, epaleate. <b>Ray</b> florets 9–60+, pistillate, fertile; corollas yellow, orange, or red. <b>Disc</b> florets 20–200+, bisexual, fertile; corollas yellow to orange (glabrous or sparsely hairy), tubes shorter than or about equaling cylindric throats, lobes 5, deltate to lance-ovate. <b>Cypselae</b> clavate to linear, compressed (lenticular in cross section), silky-hairy; pappi of 4 (distinct) quadrate to spatulate, equal, subequal, or unequal, erose to laciniate scales (the alternate alike). <b>x</b> = 19.</span><!--

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|distribution=w United States;nw Mexico.
|discussion=<p>Species 7 (7 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=wilken1975a
|text=Wilken, D. H. 1975. A systematic study of Hulsea (Asteraceae). Brittonia 27: 228–244.
}}
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Basal and proximal cauline leaves gray to grayish green, lanate to woolly (hairs mostly eglandular)
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Basal and proximal cauline leaves ± green, mostly glandular-puberulent or glandular villous (sometimes sparsely lanate as well, sometimes woolly in H. nana)
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaves basal and cauline, blades broadly oblanceolate to spatulate, 6–10 cm; heads 2–5; cypselae 4–6 mm
|[[Hulsea californica|Hulsea californica]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaves mostly basal, blades spatulate, 1–9 cm; heads 1–2; cypselae 5–10 mm
|[[Hulsea vestita|Hulsea vestita]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Leaves mostly basal (cauline none or relatively few); heads 1–2 (per basal leaf rosette)
|[[#key-0-4| > 4]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Leaves mostly cauline (basal usually present as well); heads 3–5
|[[#key-0-5| > 5]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Plants (10–)20–40 cm; leaf margins sinuate, lobed, or toothed (lobes or teeth mostly triangular); phyllary apices acute to attenuate; ray florets 28–59
|[[Hulsea algida|Hulsea algida]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Plants 5–15(–20) cm; leaf margins lobed (lobes mostly oblong); phyllary apices acuminate to acute; ray florets 12–30
|[[Hulsea nana|Hulsea nana]]
|-id=key-0-5
|5
|Ray laminae red to reddish purple (narrowly oblong to linear, ciliate)
|[[Hulsea heterochroma|Hulsea heterochroma]]
|-id=key-0-5
|5
|Ray laminae yellow (narrowly elliptic to narrowly lance-oblong)
|[[#key-0-6| > 6]]
|-id=key-0-6
|6
|Ray florets 10–23, corolla tubes hairy
|[[Hulsea brevifolia|Hulsea brevifolia]]
|-id=key-0-6
|6
|Ray florets 20–35, corolla tubes glabrous
|[[Hulsea mexicana|Hulsea mexicana]]
|}
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name=Hulsea
|author=Dieter H. Wilken
|authority=Torrey & A. Gray in War Department [U.S.]
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subtribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|distribution=w United States;nw Mexico.
|reference=wilken1975a
|publication title=in War Department[U.S.], Pacif. Railr. Rep.
|publication year=
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Heliantheae
|subtribe=Asteraceae (tribe Heliantheae) subtribe Chaenactidinae
|genus=Hulsea
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