stem herbaceous, erect, robust, panicled, the branches leafy, densely glandularly setose and hairy, one or more headed; cauline leaves clasping and strongly decurrent, oblong or lanceolate, acute, rameal sessile or but slightly decurrent, clasping, oblong, acuminate, all glandularly scabrous on both sides, woolly-edged, plurinerved, green; heads very many-fl., shortly pedicellate; inv. hemispherical, stellate, radiating, its scales imbricating, glossy, scarious, oblong, acute, golden yellow. Stem 4–5 feet high, closely leafy. Leaves 3–4 inches long or more, 1–1 1/2 wide, the medial and lower ones decurrent as a wing to the stem for 1–2 inches below their base. Heads as in H. fœtidum, from which this is readily known by its strongly decurrent leaves, green on both sides. A very fine species, worthy of cultivation.
