Verbesina encelioides (Cav.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex A.Gray , it is an annual herbs are growing up to 150 cm high. Stems are densely short-hairy. Petioles winged, wings dilated at the base to form a pair of stipule-like auricles. Leaf blades lanceolate to triangular-ovate, up to 10×7 cm, 3-veined, with a coarsely dentate margin, covered with appressed fine hairs especially on the lower surface, bases broadly cuneate to truncate, lower leaves are opposite and triangular, while the upper leaves are alternate and lanceolate. Peduncle subtended by leaf-like bracts. Heads are 2.5-5 cm in diameter, solitary at ends of long peduncles or in clusters of 2-3, paleaceous and involucres bracts 1-2 series, 7-15 mm long, linear-lanceolate to linear, appressed greyish hairy. Palea is 6-8 mm, linear, abruptly acuminate. Ray flowers 10-15/head, yellow, pistillate, rays elliptic-ovate, 1-2 cm long, 3-toothed at apex, disk flowers numerous, 8 mm long, yellow-orange, tubular, 5 toothed, hermaphrodite. Achenes flattened, grayish brown, pubescent, with 2 apical long fine appendages 1-2 mm long, achenes of 2 types, marginal achenes sterile, oblong, not winged, 5-6.5 mm long, central achenes obovate, broadly winged, 7-10 mm long including wings.
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