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Perennials, to 150 cm (rhizomatous, roots fibrous). Leaves green, blades elliptic to lanceolate (not lobed), ± leathery, bases attenuate to cuneate, margins entire, serrate, or toothed, apices acute to acuminate, faces glabrous or sparsely hairy; basal 15–50 × 3–9 cm; cauline petiolate or sessile, 5–50 × 2–12 cm. Heads borne singly or (2–5) in ± corym-biform arrays. Phyllaries to 2.5 cm (margins sometimes ciliate). Receptacles ovoid to ellipsoid; paleae 6–8 mm, apices acute (appressed in young heads), abaxial tips hairy. Ray florets 10–16; laminae oblong to oblanceolate, 20–50 × 8–12 mm, abaxially hairy. Discs 20–45 × 10–20 mm. Disc florets 200–500+; corollas proximally greenish yellow, distally maroon, 3.5–5 mm; style branches ca. 2 mm, apices acute. Cypselae 5–7.5 mm; pappi coroniform, to 1.5 mm. 2n = 36.

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1. (c) Julie Pearce, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Julie Pearce
2. (c) Anna Livia Singer, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), uploaded by Anna Livia Singer
3. (c) lan, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by lan
4. (c) Mary Spolyar, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Mary Spolyar
5. (c) Mary, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Mary
6. (c) Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/4957810

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Flora of North America (beta)
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• NatureServe Explorer 2.0
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• USDA PLANTS database
• World Flora Online

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