Pyrrocoma racemosa var. paniculata (Nutt.) Kartesz & Gandhi

Plants 20–75 cm. Stems glabrous. Leaves: basal blades oblanceolate to elliptic, 50–250 × 5–25 mm, rather thick and succulent, margins entire or denticulate, faces glabrous, often glaucous. Heads pedunculate or sessile, often crowded distally, in narrowly paniculiform, racemiform, or spiciform arrays. Involucres hemispheric, 6–8 × 8–12 mm. Phyllaries: bases pale, margins sometimes ciliate, apices erect, green, acute, faces glabrous. Cypsela faces glabrous or densely sericeous. 2n = 12, 24.