Hyalosperma glutinosum subsp. glutinosum

Erect glabrous or sparsely cottony herb 10–15 cm high, simple or branched at basal and upper nodes. Leaves filiform, 5–40 mm long, obtuse to rounded. Capitula c. cup-shaped at anthesis, 15–27 mm diam. when fully expanded; involucral bracts multiseriate, outer bracts obtuse or rounded, brownish, margins woolly-ciliate, lacking laminae, inner bracts with prominent yellow laminae c. 3–5(–7) mm long; receptacle convex; florets numerous, bisexual except for few central functionally male ones, corolla 5-lobed. Cypselas broad-oblong, 1.5–2.5 mm long, densely and minutely papillose (but may appear smooth); pappus bristles c. 12, plumose in upper half, dilated and smooth toward base and variably united into a sheath. Flowers Aug.–Nov.