Intro: Erect, rhizomatous and colonial perennial found on roadsides, fencerows, clearings and other disturbed areas. Introduced from farther west in the U.S.

Stems: Stems simple to much-branched above, red- or purple-tinged, often with a whitish coating.

Leaves: Leaves opposite below and alternate above, petiolate (often winged), lance-shaped, to 8 in. long, coarsely toothed, pinnately veined, rough above and with stiff hairs on both surfaces, sometimes whitish beneath.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Composite flowers (heads) in small clusters or panicles, 2 1/2-4 in. wide, consisting of 10-20 yellow ray florets encircling a center disk of darker yellow, tubular florets. Spreading, sharply pointed, narrow bracts bearing fine hairs around their margins surround the base of each head.

Fruits: Fruit a mottled brown-and-black, narrowly wedge-shaped achene.

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Height: 3-8 ft.

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description: Erect, rhizomatous and colonial perennial found on roadsides, fencerows, clearings and other disturbed areas. Introduced from farther west in the U.S.

stems: Stems simple to much-branched above, red- or purple-tinged, often with a whitish coating.

leaves: Leaves opposite below and alternate above, petiolate (often winged), lance-shaped, to 8 in. long, coarsely toothed, pinnately veined, rough above and with stiff hairs on both surfaces, sometimes whitish beneath.

inflorescence:

flowers: Composite flowers (heads) in small clusters or panicles, 2 1/2-4 in. wide, consisting of 10-20 yellow ray florets encircling a center disk of darker yellow, tubular florets. Spreading, sharply pointed, narrow bracts bearing fine hairs around their margins surround the base of each head.

fruits: Fruit a mottled brown-and-black, narrowly wedge-shaped achene.

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