Feay's Palafox

Perennials or subshrubs, 100–300 cm. Stems strigillose to nearly glabrous, not stipitate-glandular. Leaf blades narrowly elliptic, broadly oblong, or ovate, 20–60 × 5–25 mm. Involucres campanulate or broadly to narrowly turbinate. Phyllaries 5–9 × 1–1.5 mm, ± equal, ± strigillose. Ray florets 0. Disc florets 15–30; corollas ± actinomorphic, 10–14 mm, throats ± cylindric, longer than lobes. Cypselae 6–8 mm; pappus scales of inner cypselae 1.5–2 mm. 2n = 24.

Palafoxia feayi A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 12: 59. 1876
A perennial, suffruticose at the base; stem terete, minutely scabrous, 3-7 dm. high;
leaves short-petioled; blades oblong or elliptic, rounded at both ends, or the uppermost acute
at the apex, 3-ribbed at the base, scabrous-hispidulous; heads corymbose; involucre turbinate,
about 1 cm. high and broad; bracts spatulate-linear, truncate or rounded at the apex, purplish;
corollas 15-20; tube 2 mm. long; throat cylindric, 4 mm. long; lobes oblong, 1.5 mm. long;
pappus-squamellae 8, oblong, 1-1.5 mm. long.
Type locality: South Florida. Distribution: Florida.