Intro: Erect, acaulescent, rhizomatous perennial of dry forests, woodland margins and roadsides.

Stems: Stems slender, arising from center of basal rosette, green or purple, mostly leafless, hairy at base.

Leaves: Leaves basal, elliptic-oblong with broadly rounded tips, 1 1/2-6 in. long, green with reddish-purple vein, with (often) black dots above and reddish-purple beneath, hairy.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Composite flowers (heads) in wide-branching terminal cluster; heads 1/2-3/4 in. wide, consisting of many yellow ray florets with squared-off, toothed tips. Many green, glandular-hairy bracts surround the cylindrical base of each head.

Fruits: Fruit a fluffy cluster of achenes with pale yellow tufts of hair.

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Height: 10-32 in.

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description: Erect, acaulescent, rhizomatous perennial of dry forests, woodland margins and roadsides.

stems: Stems slender, arising from center of basal rosette, green or purple, mostly leafless, hairy at base.

leaves: Leaves basal, elliptic-oblong with broadly rounded tips, 1 1/2-6 in. long, green with reddish-purple vein, with (often) black dots above and reddish-purple beneath, hairy.

inflorescence:

flowers: Composite flowers (heads) in wide-branching terminal cluster; heads 1/2-3/4 in. wide, consisting of many yellow ray florets with squared-off, toothed tips. Many green, glandular-hairy bracts surround the cylindrical base of each head.

fruits: Fruit a fluffy cluster of achenes with pale yellow tufts of hair.

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