Craspedia paludicola

Robust herb with 1–3 flowering scapes to 75 cm high; roots thick, tomentose. Leaves basal and cauline, narrow-oblanceolate, 15–40 cm long, 8–20 mm wide, obtuse, usually deep red and attenuate at the base and broadly stem-clasping, with 1–several prominent longitudinal veins, glabrous or with few scattered finely woolly or multiseptate hairs (sometimes denser on margins or midrib); old leaf-bases retained. Inflorescence bright yellow, hemispherical, 1.7–3 cm diam., with up to 300 capitula on peduncles 2–5 mm long; scape crimson with scattered fine, woolly hairs. Capitula with 7–12 florets; bract subtending capitulum broadly deltoid to ovate, margins membranous, stereome small, diffuse, ovate, glandular-hairy, with silky hairs. Cypselas 1–1.8 mm long; pappus 3–4 mm long Flowers spring and summer.