largely enclosed by the outer bract, ca. 4 mm long, a third, elongate, ca. 2 mm long, vestigial involucral bract sometimes present below the major ones; corolla white, the tube slender, 1.7 mm long, the limb 1.8 mm long, 4-parted, the lobes lanceolate, equal, 1.5 mm long, 0.5 mm wide at the base; anthers 1.0 mm long, basally sagittate, the lobes 0.08 mm long; style branches 0.2 mm long, flattened adaxially, strigulose abaxially. Achenes obovoid, slightly flattened, smooth, obscurely 5-nerved, 1.5 mm long, 0.8 mm across at the widest point, vitreous-yellow to-brown, resin-dotted throughout; pappus in 1 series, a continuous crown of many persistent somewhat lacerate, united hyaline scales 0.15-0.30 mm long.