Intro: Erect to leaning perennial from large, black roots found in sandhills, dry pinelands and pine flatwoods.

Stems: Stems unbranched, prominently winged and covered with white or rust-colored hairs.

Leaves: Leaves alternate, sessile with leaf bases continuing down stem as wings, elliptic or lance-shaped, to 4 1/3 in. long, dark green and nearly smooth above, white and densely hairy beneath.

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Flowers: Composite flowers (heads) densely packed in a terminal spike (1-3 in. long), which may nod; heads less than 1/4 in. tall; consisting of tiny, white (pink-tinged), tubular disk florets and protruding styles. Tiny greenish-white bracts tightly surround the cylindric base of each head.

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Height: 8-30 in.

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description: Erect to leaning perennial from large, black roots found in sandhills, dry pinelands and pine flatwoods.

stems: Stems unbranched, prominently winged and covered with white or rust-colored hairs.

leaves: Leaves alternate, sessile with leaf bases continuing down stem as wings, elliptic or lance-shaped, to 4 1/3 in. long, dark green and nearly smooth above, white and densely hairy beneath.

inflorescence:

flowers: Composite flowers (heads) densely packed in a terminal spike (1-3 in. long), which may nod; heads less than 1/4 in. tall; consisting of tiny, white (pink-tinged), tubular disk florets and protruding styles. Tiny greenish-white bracts tightly surround the cylindric base of each head.

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