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A straggling, weak-stemmed, thinly hairy, often glandular, perennial herb, stems simple or sparingly branched, up to c. 1 m tall, leafy. Leaves alternate, up to 12 x 3 cm, narrowly to broadly lanceolate, sessile, auriculate-amplexicaul, sometimes narrowed to a petiole-like base, simple or occasionally lobate, margins coarsely toothed. Heads about 1.5 cm long, solitary on long bracteate peduncles, terminal or in the uppermost leaf axils. Involucral bracts c. 20, a little shorter than the flowers, more or less hairy. Flowers bright golden yellow. Achenes c. 2 mm long, narrowly cylindric, dark with closely set white ribs, white hispid between the ribs. Pappus of copious white silky hairs, many time longer than the achene, deciduous.
Straggling, ± hairy, often glandular, perennial herb, stems mostly simple, up to ± 1 m high, leafy. Leaves up to 120 x 30 mm, lanceolate, sessile, auriculate-amplexicaul, sometimes narrowed to a petiole-like base, mostly simple, margins coarsely toothed. Capitula ± 15 mm long, solitary on long, bracteate peduncles, terminal or in uppermost leaf axils; involucral bracts ± 20, ± hairy. Flowering time Nov.-June. Cypselae 2 mm long, narrowly cylindric, ribbed; pappus of many long white-silky hairs, deciduous.
