Pluchea sericea Coville

Shrubs or trees (not aromatic), 150–300(–500) cm; roots not seen. Stems (densely leafy) seric-eous, not glandular. Leaves sessile; blades lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate or narrowly oblanceolate, 1–5 × 0.2–1 cm, margins entire, faces sparsely to densely silvery sericeous, not glandular (minutely punctate). Heads in cymiform clusters. Involucres ± campanulate, 4–6 × 3–5 mm. Phyllaries pink to purplish, tomentose to villosulous (outer) to arachnose-ciliate or glabrate (inner). Corollas pink to purplish. Pappi persistent, bristles distinct (distally dilated in functionally staminate florets; cypselae glabrous). 2n = 20.

It is a temperate plant.

The roots are roasted and eaten.