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Per@nnial tufted heros witn stout rootstochs anu alternate am-le leaves. : 
Heads showy, terminal, their involucres ccnsisting of 5-4 series of unequal 
herbaceous bracts, the receptacle flat. Ray-flowers pistillate ana fertile, : 
yellow; disc-flowers yellow, each subtended by a somewhat herbaceous or chaffy 
lanceolate bract, sube 
the parpus forming a cana 
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ual and lichtly sheathing. Acnenes prismatic,4-angled, 
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J eOOvned Crown Witn soOmeti ies t-s aduitional charry 
lsahiie amplexicqul 1s  Ubvs —-———» Coarse“glabrous perennials with several 
stems ascending and spreading froma stout crown,~30-69-100 cm, tall, forming 
conspicuous tufts$ basal leaves elliptical, oblong-lanceolate, or lanceolate, 
30+60 cme long, 8-15 cm. wide,, acute or acuminate, narrowed to a short a 
clasping petiole, entire or obscurely denticulate, dark green and sticky from 
numerous resin glands on botn surfaces; stein leaves successively smaller, 
the upper sessile and claspin:, tne stems, crowued; neads terminal witn usually 
2-0 smaller lateral ones, their involucral bracts lanceolate, leaf-liie, 
2-4 cme lons; ray-corolias bright yelliw, 60-55 mne lon:.3; aisc-corolias yellow, 
G-10 mm. long, subtended by submembranous or somewnat charfy,lanceolate, acute, | 
glabrous bracts 12-15 mm. acnenes 8-10 mn. lon, — 
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Abundant toward the grassland on low oren hills. 
