stem robust, suffruticose at base, erect, rigid-herbaceous, leafy, branched at the summit, the branches cobwebbed, corymbiferous; leaves clasping and adnate-subdecurrent at base, oblong or oblongo-lanceolate, acute, sharply and coarsely toothed, with reflexed or revolute margins, glabrous and scabrous-dotted above, albo-tomentose beneath; corymb much branched, spreading, many-headed, the pedicels scaly; heads 50–60-fl., radiate; inv. calycled, of 12–15 glabrous scales; rays about 12, yellow; achenes minutely granulated.Stem 2–3 f. high, branched at the summit, closely leafy. Leaves 1–2 1/2 inches long, 4 lines to 1 1/2 in. wide, rigid, sharply indented like those of a holly, with round spaces between the teeth; upper surface glossy green, lower white. Infl. 5- to upwards of 100-headed. A larger and coarser plant than S. juniperinus, with broader and more deeply toothed and rigid leaves. S. quercifolius, fide Herb. Th.! is merely the base of the stem, where the leaves are larger and more incised! null
