This section is from the book "Wild Flowers Of The North American Mountains", by Julia W. Henshaw. Also available from Amazon: Wild Flowers of the North American Mountains.
Perennial by a woody root. Stems: simple or branched above, sometimes hirsute. Leaves: pubescent, entire, the basal ones spatulate; stem-leaves oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or acute. Flowers: heads several or solitary, involucre hemispheric, hirsute; rays very narrow, about one hundred or more.
This charming Fleabane grows in dry soil and bears flowers of many hues, - pink, mauve, cream, and white. It has long narrow leaves, which, together with the stalks, are hairy.
 
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