Psilostrophe lanata

Psilostrophe lanata (A. Nelson) Hay, Miller & White, Proc Biol. Soc. Wash. 16: 186. 1903.
Psilostrophe tagetina lanala A. Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 16: 21. 1903.
A perennial, woody only at the base, which is densely woolly; stems 3-4 dm. high, longvillous, angled and striate, usually with strongly ascending branches; basal leaves spatulate, petioled, 5-10 cm. long, rather densely longwoolly, at least when young; lower stem-leaves often toothed or lobed, with oblong divisions; upper stem-leaves linear or linear-oblanceolate; heads rather numerous; peduncles mostly short, 1-2 cm. long; involucre about 6 mm. long, 3 mm. broad; ligules 3-5, orange or bright-yellow, 6-8 mm. long, shallowly 3-lobed; disk-corollas 7-10; achenes glabrous, striate; squamellae lance-elliptic, about half as long as the disk-corollas.
Type locality: Texas.
Distribution: Western Texas to New Mexico and Chihuahua.