Thymophylla tenuiloba, also known as the Dahlberg daisy, small bristleleaf pricklyleaf, golden fleece, or shooting star is a bushy, multi-branched flowering annual from the family Asteraceae

Asteraceae

The Asteraceae or Compositae , is an exceedingly large and widespread family of vascular plants. The group has more than 22,750 currently accepted species, spread across 1620 genera and 12 subfamilies...

. Native to south central Texas

Texas

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 and northern Mexico

Mexico

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, it produces a large number of small, yellow flowers and demonstrates a trailing habit. It is tolerant of heat and dry conditions and is sometimes sold as a summertime annual plant in areas beyond its native range.

The plant was once known as Hymenatherum tenuilobum in the De Candolle system

De Candolle system

An early taxonomic system,the de Candolle system was originally published in :and followed up by the very extensive Prodromus:The system recognises the following groups of vascular plants:* classis I. DICOTYLEDONEÆ...

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The species is naturalized in Queensland

Queensland

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in Australia.