1	"Heads in panicle-like cluster, always radiate; leaves +- hairy, hairs curled"	2
1	"Heads generally solitary, radiate or discoid; leaves glabrous or hairy"	3
2	"Heads 3--9 in tight panicle-like cluster; rays well developed; leaves densely silver- or gray-tomentose, not at all strigose"	"Encelia farinosa"
2	"Heads 2--5 in loose panicle-like cluster; rays often short, few, deeply lobed; leaves moderately hairy, often partly strigose"	"Encelia farinosa × e. frutescens"
3	"Disk corolla brown-purple; leaves green, glabrous to sparsely and minutely strigose or bristly"	"Encelia californica"
3	"Disk corolla yellow or orange; leaves green to gray, glabrous or hairy"	4
4	"Ray flowers 0; leaves green, strigose but not canescent"	"Encelia frutescens"
4	"Ray flowers present; leaves gray-green to green, canescent"	5
5	"Leaves silvery green, canescent, not at all strigose; ray flowers 14--25, ray 10--25 mm, shallowly toothed; sw SnJV and adjacent WTR (Cuyama Valley), W&I, w D and adjacent CA-FP, DMtns"	"Encelia actoni"
5	"Leaves sparsely strigose and lightly soft-canescent; ray flowers 11--21, ray 8--15 mm, deeply toothed; e DMoj, DMtns"	"Encelia virginensis"