Intro: Erect, rhizomatous perennial of dry woodlands, prairies, barrens and roadsides.

Stems: Stems often branched above, mostly smooth, but may be slightly hairy below the flower head; often with a whitish coating.

Leaves: Leaves mostly opposite, petiolate, lance-shaped or oval, 3-9 in long, shallowly toothed, thick and firm, rough-hairy above and white-waxy or downy and resin-dotted beneath.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Composite flowers (heads) mostly solitary at ends of branches, 1 1/2-2 1/2 in. wide (may be up to 4 in.), consisting of 8-15 yellow ray florets encircling a center disk of yellow tubular florets. Overlapping, spreading, narrow and pointed bracts with hairy margins surround the base of each head.

Fruits: Fruit a mottled light-and-dark-brown achene.

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Height: 3-9 ft.

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description: Erect, rhizomatous perennial of dry woodlands, prairies, barrens and roadsides.

stems: Stems often branched above, mostly smooth, but may be slightly hairy below the flower head; often with a whitish coating.

leaves: Leaves mostly opposite, petiolate, lance-shaped or oval, 3-9 in long, shallowly toothed, thick and firm, rough-hairy above and white-waxy or downy and resin-dotted beneath.

inflorescence:

flowers: Composite flowers (heads) mostly solitary at ends of branches, 1 1/2-2 1/2 in. wide (may be up to 4 in.), consisting of 8-15 yellow ray florets encircling a center disk of yellow tubular florets. Overlapping, spreading, narrow and pointed bracts with hairy margins surround the base of each head.

fruits: Fruit a mottled light-and-dark-brown achene.

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