Wand Blackroot

Plants 4–15 dm. Leaf blades linear to narrowly elliptic or linear-lanceolate, 5–10(–15) cm × (2–)5–10(–14) mm, lengths mostly 6–8 times widths, margins entire or minutely denticulate (revolute). Heads in open, inter-rupted, ± cylindric arrays (5–)8–20 cm (main axes visible between glomerules of heads). Involucres campanulate to cylindric, 4–5 mm. Pistillate florets 25–50. Functionally staminate florets 2–4(–5). Cypselae 1–1.4 mm.

Gnaphalium virgatum Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 2: 1211. 1759