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Perennial herb, up to 0.6 m high; rhizomatous, branched above into 2-4-headed inflorescence. Leaves alternate, mostly crowded in basal tufts; sessile; blade ovate or obovate, base dilated, roughly hairy or nearly glabrous, thin-textured, ± 5-nerved, margins entire or obscurely dentate, smaller upwards. Heads radiate in 2-4-headed panicles; peduncle remotely leafy, then bracteate, densely hairy. Involucral bracts 3-seriate, outer row smaller than 2 inner rows, outer row densely glandular and hairy. Flowers: ray florets blue, pink, mauve or magenta; disc florets yellow; Nov.-Jan. Fruit with cypsela obovate, blackish brown, shortly appressed-pubescent. Pappus bristles barbellate, of equal length, uniseriate.
Rhizomatous, perennial herb, up to 0.6 m high. Leaves in a basal rosette and alternately scattered along stem, obovate to elliptic, diminishing in size upwards, sessile, 3-5-nerved from base, margins entire or faintly denticulate, hairy to glabrous. Capitula radiate, fairly large, 2-4 per stem; involucral bracts in 3 rows, equal in size, outer ones densely glandular and some hairs. Ray florets blue. Disc florets yellow. Flowering time Dec.-Mar. Pappus of barbellate bristles. Cypselae obovate, shortly hairy.
Perennial herb, up to 0.6 m high. Leaves in a basal rosette and scattered along stem, obovate to elliptic, up to 30 mm broad, with 3-5 nerves from base, hairy to glabrous. Involucral bracts equal, in 3 rows. Achenes shortly hairy. Flowers blue.
