Picris squarrosa

Perennial, 20–120 cm high, usually with dense simple and mainly 2-fid hooked hairs; stems erect, few-many-branched. Basal leaves petiolate, linear-lanceolate to narrow-obovate or spathulate, 10–45 cm long, 1–4 cm wide, obtuse to acute, base attenuate, margins entire to dentate; cauline leaves sessile, few-many, similar to lower ones but bases truncate to cordate, reduced toward inflorescence and bract-like on peduncles. Peduncles with few–many bracts mostly close below capitulum. Involucre 5–9 mm diam.; involucral bracts 4–19 mm long; outer bracts squarrose with recurved apices, often tomentose along midrib or apical margins, rarely with simple or 2-fid hooked hairs along midrib. Ligules 8–16 mm long. Cypselas mostly 5–8 mm long, beak usually shorter than body; pappus 5.5–10.5 mm long. Flowers mostly Oct.–Apr.