Intro: Erect, often colonial perennial of nutrient-rich forests and woodlands (dry or moist), usually over calcareous or mafic rocks.

Stems: Stems branched in inflorescence, hairy when young, later smooth; forming large colonies via stolons or creeping rhizomes.

Leaves: Basal leaves on winged petioles (sometimes cobwebby-hairy), broadly oval to rounded, 1 1/2-4 in. long; stem leaves few, elliptic in outline, to 2 1/2 in. long, variably pinnately lobed or toothed.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Composite flowers (heads) in a flat-topped, branching, terminal cluster; heads 1/2-1 in. wide, consisting of 8-16 yellow ray florets encircling a slightly domed central disk of tiny, orange-yellow, tubular florets.

Fruits: Fruit a small, tufted achene.

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Height: 8-28 in.

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description: Erect, often colonial perennial of nutrient-rich forests and woodlands (dry or moist), usually over calcareous or mafic rocks.

stems: Stems branched in inflorescence, hairy when young, later smooth; forming large colonies via stolons or creeping rhizomes.

leaves: Basal leaves on winged petioles (sometimes cobwebby-hairy), broadly oval to rounded, 1 1/2-4 in. long; stem leaves few, elliptic in outline, to 2 1/2 in. long, variably pinnately lobed or toothed.

inflorescence:

flowers: Composite flowers (heads) in a flat-topped, branching, terminal cluster; heads 1/2-1 in. wide, consisting of 8-16 yellow ray florets encircling a slightly domed central disk of tiny, orange-yellow, tubular florets.

fruits: Fruit a small, tufted achene.

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