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Eucephalus paucicapitatus
Eucephalus paucicapitatus

Olympic Mountain aster
Habit Perennial from a stout, short woody base, usually with several stems from the base, 2-5 dm. tall, the herbage covered with glands on short, fine hairs.
Leaves

Lowermost leaves reduced and scale-like, the others numerous, nearly alike, sessile, elliptic or lance-elliptic to elliptic-oblong, entire, 2-4 cm. long and 4-13 mm. wide.
Flowers

Heads few or solitary, rather large, the disk 1-2.5 cm. wide;

involucre 7-10 mm. high, the bracts not much inbricate, narrow, long-pointed, firm and somewhat keeled;

rays usually 13, white, 1-1.5 cm. long;

pappus of capillary bristles, some of the outer ones shorter.
Fruits

Achenes hairy throughout.

Eucephalus paucicapitatus
Flowering time July-September
Habitat Open slopes, from middle to high elevations in the mountains.
Distribution
Occurring in the Olympic Mountains in Washington; Vancouver Island, British Columbia to the Olympic Mountains in Washington.
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Origin Native
Conservation status Not of concern
Sibling taxa
E. engelmannii, E. glaucescens, E. ledophyllus
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