ABSTRACT
Chrysopsis mariana (of Maryland) [Maryland] golden-[aster, star] (“golden,” in reference to color has been combined with various plants since at least the 1570s, and probably before; the OED 1971 lists 33 combinations; “aster” and “star” are not among them)
This genus was long part of the confusion involving what are now known as Heterotheca and Pityopsis. John Semple (1977, 1980, 1996, Semple et al. 1980) resolved those problems. More discussion is given under Heterotheca.
