GI Se missouriensiS “sag ~~——-> Perennial herbs with matted, branching 
~ rootstocks and tufted stems 30-60 cm. tall, glabrous or nearly so, the basal i 3’ 
leaves 6-15 cme long, oblanceolate or spatulate, attenuate to indefinite 
petioles, mostly acute at the apex, clabrate, the lower stem leaves similar 
but smaller and more narrow,the upper linear or linear-oblanceolate, sessile, 
very acute, commonly folded inward, all more or less roughened on the margins 
with small curving hairs; heads in dense pyramidal panicles 5-8 cm. tall, the 
lower DrancheS —smidheee—aae recurved; heads numerous, thaig involucral bracts 
2-5 mue tall, oblong-lanceolate, acutish or obtuse, dull, tne midvein prom- 
inent in all, yellowish-green, the margins, especially of the inner, scarious , 
usually ciliolate; ray-flowers 6-lc, their corollas 4 mm. long; mature achenes 
not seene 
Frequent on open hillsides at lower elevations. 
