Boltonia decurrens (Torr. & A.Gray) Wood

Plants 50–200+ cm; basal offshoots, rhizomes, and stolons absent. Stems erect. Leaf blades linear-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate; cauline 64–155 × 8–26 mm, bases decurrent. Heads in corymbiform to corymbo-paniculiform arrays; bracts 11–125 × 1–19 mm. Peduncles 3–53 mm; bracts 0–1(–3), linear to oblanceolate, 3–5(–9) mm. Involucres 3.2–4.3 × 8–9 mm. Phyllaries in 3–5 series, oblong to spatulate, subequal, apices acuminate to cuspidate, 0–1 merging down peduncles; outer 2.3–3.9 × 0.5–1 mm; inner 3–4 × 0.6–1 mm. Ray florets 45–60; corollas white to lilac, laminae 9–14 mm, tubes 0.6–1.1 mm. Disc florets 230–400+; corollas 1.8–2.4 mm. Cypselae obovoid to obcordiform, 1.5–2.6 × 1.1–1.9 mm, wings 0.3–0.4 mm wide; pappus awns 0.8–1.75 mm. 2n = 18.