Plants to 120 cm. Stems (erect, usu-ally suffrutescent) much branched distally. Leaves evenly distributed along stems or distally crowded; sessile or petiolate (at least mid stem); blades elongate-deltate to lanceolate (widths to 2/3 lengths), chartaceous, margins dentate, serrate, or doubly serrate, faces hirsute to ± scabrous. Heads in paniculiform or corymbiform arrays. Peduncles densely hirsute. Involucres 18–27 mm diam. Ray corollas deep yellow to orange-yellow, abaxial veins green, laminae 10.5–17 mm. Disc corollas red to maroon. Cypselae (ovate) 4.5–6 × 3–4.8 mm. 2n = 30.
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