Olympic Mountain Aster

Eucephalus paucicapitatus is found on Vancouver Island, where it is very uncommon, and the Olympic Peninsula. It is closely related to E. gormanii.

Perennials 20–55 cm (caudices woody). Stems ascending to erect, pilose or glandular-pubescent. Leaves: mid and distal blades elliptic to elliptic-oblong, 2–4 cm × 4–13 mm, sparsely scabrous to stipitate-glandular abaxially, moderately stipitate-glandular adaxially. Heads usually 2–4 in racemiform to corymbiform arrays, somtimes borne singly. Peduncles stipitate-glandular. Involucres turbinate-obconic, 7–9 mm. Phyllaries in 2–3 series (whitish), lance-linear (unequal), apices acute, abaxial faces stipitate-glandular. Rays 7–13(–21), white. Cypselae obconic, pilose; pappus bristles in 2 series, ± barbellate.

Aster engelmannii (D. C. Eaton) A. Gray var. paucicapitatus B. L. Robinson, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 26: 176. 1891 (as engelmanni); A. paucicapitatus (B. L. Robinson) B. L. Robinson