''Heliomeris multiflora'' is a North American species of flowering plants in the family

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called the showy goldeneye. It grows in Mexico and the western United States from

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. ''Heliomeris multiflora'' is a perennial herb up to tall, with a large taproot. Leaves are up to 16 cm (6.3 in) long, with hairs along the edges. One plant can produce 25 or more yellow

flower heads A pseudanthium (Greek for "false flower"; ) is an inflorescence that resembles a flower. The word is sometimes used for other structures that are neither a true flower nor a true inflorescence. Examples of pseudanthia include flower heads, compos ...

, each head with 12-14 ray flowers surrounding 50 or more tiny disc flowers.Flora of North America, ''Heliomeris multiflora'' Nuttall, 1848. Showy goldeneye
/ref>Blake, Sydney Fay. 1918. Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University 54: 108–110
as ''Viguiera multiflora'' ;Varieties *''Heliomeris multiflora'' var. ''brevifolia'' (Greene ex Wooton & Standl.) -

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*''Heliomeris multiflora'' var. ''multiflora'' - from

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and

south to

Durango Durango (), officially named Estado Libre y Soberano de Durango ( en, Free and Sovereign State of Durango; Tepehuán: ''Korian''; Nahuatl: ''Tepēhuahcān''), is one of the 31 states which make up the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico, situated in ...

*''Heliomeris multiflora'' var. ''nevadensis'' (A.Nelson) W.F.Yates - from

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USDA Plants Profile
Heliantheae Flora of Mexico Flora of the Western United States Plants described in 1848 Flora without expected TNC conservation status {{Heliantheae-stub