Crassocephalum bauchiense (Hutch.) Milne-redh.

Annual herb up to 120 cm tall; stems erect, shortly pubescent.. Leaves sessile, obovate-lanceolate in outline, deeply pinnate-lyrately lobed with 5–20 lanceolate sinuate-dentate or sinuate-lobulate lateral lobes, 2–15 cm long, 2–5.5 cm wide, apex obtuse, minutely acuminate-apiculate, scattered-pubescent especially on veins.. Capitula numerous in copious compound terminal corymbs, discoid; stalks of the individual capitula pubescent; involucre cylindrical, 7.5–8.5 mm long, 3 mm in diameter; bracts of calyculus 11–18, narrowly lanceolate, 2–3.5 mm long, ciliate; phyllaries 12–18, 7–8 mm long, glabrous.. Disc florets pale blue; corolla 6–7 mm long, tube glabrous, gradually expanded in upper third, lobes 0.7 mm long.. Achenes 2.5–3 mm long, ribbed, very shortly sparsely hairy between the ribs; pappus 6–7 mm long.

In rough open ground.