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Information Annuals, biennials, or perennials (shrubs in A. californica, subshrubs in A. nesiotica); usually fibrous-rooted, sometimes taprooted, caudices sometimes woody, rhizomes sometimes present. Stems usually not wandlike (wandlike in A. californica, A. nesiotica, A. palmeri). Leaves usually deciduous, rarely persistent, basal (rosettes) and/or cauline (not in fascicles). Heads usually disciform (discoid in A. nesiotica and A. palmeri). Receptacles glabrous (paleate in A. palmeri). Florets: usually peripheral 3–20 pistillate and fertile (0 pistillate in A. nesiotica, A. palmeri); central (or all) 14–70 bisexual and fertile; corollas funnelform.

Information Perennials, 50–170(–200) cm, aromatic (rhizomes woody, coarse). Stems usually 10+, erect, light brown, simple, usually glabrous. Leaves cauline (sessile), bicolor (white and dark green); blades lanceolate, 5–10(–15) × 1–5 cm (bases strongly tapered, attenuate), coarsely and irregularly lobed, faces tomentose (abaxial) or glabrous (adaxial). Heads (erect) in crowded (proximally leafy), paniculiform or racemiform arrays 17–30 × (2–)4–5 cm (lateral branches stiff, erect). Involucres narrowly turbinate or globose, 1.5–2.5 × 1–1.5 mm. Phyllaries (straw-colored to yellow-green, shiny) lanceolate, glabrous or sparsely hairy. Florets: pistillate 2–5; bisexual 2–7; corollas yellow, 1.5–3 mm, glabrous. Cypselae ellipsoid, 0.8–1.5 mm, glabrous. 2n = 18.