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Herb to 1 m tall, with erect flowering stems from short procumbent stem bases; stems simple or branched, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves green or glaucous; petiole absent, or in the most proximal leaves up to 4 cm long; the proximal obovate to spatulate, 1–12 cm long, 0.5–3 cm wide, the base attenuate towards a semi-amplexicaul extreme base, crenate to pinnatifid, the lobes rounded to mucronate. Capitula solitary or up to 10 in lax corymbs, 0.5–1 cm high, 2–4(–9) cm in diameter; involucre broadly campanulate, phyllaries green, ovate to lanceolate, 4–8 mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, pale brown with a darker midrib and fringed margins extended into a membranous, scarious margin. Ray florets 20–34, with rays white, 10–18(–25) mm long, 2.5–5 mm wide, occasionally very short or absent; disc florets yellow, 3–3.5 mm long. Achenes 2–2.5 mm long, the outer with or without pappus, when pappus present than as an auricle or a crown to 1.5 mm long; inner always without pappus. Fig. 109 (page 521).

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Herb to 1 m tall, with erect flowering stems from short procumbent stem bases; stems simple or branched, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves green or glaucous; petiole absent, or in the most proximal leaves up to 4 cm long; the proximal obovate to spatulate, 1–12 cm long, 0.5–3 cm wide, the base attenuate towards a semi-amplexicaul extreme base, crenate to pinnatifid, the lobes rounded to mucronate. Capitula solitary or up to 10 in lax corymbs, 0.5–1 cm high, 2–4(–9) cm in diameter; involucre broadly campanulate, phyllaries green, ovate to lanceolate, 4–8 mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, pale brown with a darker midrib and fringed margins extended into a membranous, scarious margin. Ray florets 20–34, with rays white, 10–18(–25) mm long, 2.5–5 mm wide, occasionally very short or absent; disc florets yellow, 3–3.5 mm long. Achenes 2–2.5 mm long, the outer with or without pappus, when pappus present than as an auricle or a crown to 1.5 mm long; inner always without pappus. Fig. 109 (page 521).

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Herb to 1 m tall, with erect flowering stems from short procumbent stem bases; stems simple or branched, glabrous or pubescent. Leaves green or glaucous; petiole absent, or in the most proximal leaves up to 4 cm long; the proximal obovate to spatulate, 1–12 cm long, 0.5–3 cm wide, the base attenuate towards a semi-amplexicaul extreme base, crenate to pinnatifid, the lobes rounded to mucronate. Capitula solitary or up to 10 in lax corymbs, 0.5–1 cm high, 2–4(–9) cm in diameter; involucre broadly campanulate, phyllaries green, ovate to lanceolate, 4–8 mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, pale brown with a darker midrib and fringed margins extended into a membranous, scarious margin. Ray florets 20–34, with rays white, 10–18(–25) mm long, 2.5–5 mm wide, occasionally very short or absent; disc florets yellow, 3–3.5 mm long. Achenes 2–2.5 mm long, the outer with or without pappus, when pappus present than as an auricle or a crown to 1.5 mm long; inner always without pappus. Fig. 109 (page 521).