Plants 0.4–0.8 m, with caudex and taproot. Stems erect, gray-green, sometimes brick-reddish proximally, coarsely stellate-hairy, hairs grayish, to 2 mm diam. Leaves: stipules lanceolate, 5–6 × 2 mm; petiole 2–3(–7) cm, 1/2–3 times as long as blade, shortest on distalmost leaves; blade rounded to truncate or wide-cordate, unlobed or very shallowly lobed, margins crenate, proximal 3–7(–10) × 3–7(–10) cm, distal usually flabelliform, unlobed or very shallowly incised to 1/4 length, 2–3 × 1.8–2.5 cm, surfaces stellate-hairy, hairs usually overlapping. Inflorescences erect or ascending, often dense and spiciform when young, more open and elongating in age, unbranched or few-branched, 2–10 cm; bracts paired, distinct, broadly lanceolate, 5–7(–10) × 2.5–4 mm, much longer than pedicels, slightly shorter than calyx. Pedicels 1–2 mm, obscured by bracts; involucellar bractlets 3, 5–7 mm, equaling or slightly shorter than calyx. Flowers bisexual; calyx 8–10 mm, stellate-hairy, often sparsely so, sometimes with coarser, longer, stellate hairs; petals pale pink to pinkish lavender, 11–15 mm; staminal column 6–7 mm, hairy; anthers white to pale yellow; stigmas 6 or 7(–10). Schizocarps 5–7 mm diam.; mericarps 6 or 7(–10), (1.5–)2–2.5 mm; back and margins with 9 corrugations. Seeds 1.5–2 mm. 2n = 20.
Home