Lordhowea pilosicrista

Erect, simple or few-branched, glabrous, sometimes glaucous, somewhat fleshy perennial to c. 0.8 m high. Leaves sessile, the lower narrow-obovate to oblanceolate, dentate to lobate in distal half, to 17 cm long, 7–30 mm wide; stem leaves narrow-elliptic to lanceolate becoming strongly triangular-lanceolate upwards, cuneate to cordate and often amplexicaul at base, coarsely dentate distally to entire, to 12 cm long, 40 mm wide. Inflorescence of 2–8(–15) capitula; peduncles hollow, expanded somewhat just below capitula; capitula radiate; involucre campanulate, 6–10 mm long; bracts 12–16; bracteoles 3–6. Ray florets 6–10, yellow, ligules 10–20 mm long; disc florets 30–55, yellow. Cypselas cylindric, 4–5 mm long, brown, with pairs of ribs strongly raised to form several ridges, papillose-hairy in lines within ridges; pappus of white minutely scabrid or nearly smooth barbellate hairs 5.5–7 mm long, persistent. Flowers Aug.–Oct.