Stem herbaceous, rigid, angular and striate, glabrous or cobwebbed, branching; branches corymbiferous; leaves scattered, ear-clasping, linear, entire, with strongly revolute margins, obtuse, glabrate above, woolly beneath; corymbs closely few-headed, the pedicels short; inv. of 10-12 glabrous scales, calycled and woolly at base; heads 20-30-fl., discoid; achenes hispidulous. Stem 12-18 inches high, slender, laxly branched; the branches long, simple or divided, floriferous. Leaves scattered, subdistant, 1-1 1/2 inch long, not a line wide, but with well-developed basal ears. Pubescence cobwebby and fugacious. Heads 5-10, in subglobose, dense corymbs. Inv. 3 lines long, shorter than the disc; scales of the calycle brown-tipped.
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