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Achenes terete or ribbed, glabrous, truncate; pappus none or a minute crown.—Branching strong-scented herbs, with finely pinnately dissected leaves and solitary terminal heads; rays white; disk yellow.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Embryo straight.—Trees, with alternate serrate pinnately veined leaves and fugacious stipules.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Glabrous perennials from fascicled tubers, with pinnately compound leaves.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Leaves mostly palmately, sometimes pinnately 3-foliolate; leaflets usually toothed.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

White-woolly throughout, low; stem very leafy; leaves all pinnately parted into rigid narrowly linear and elongated, sometimes again pinnatifid divisions, with revolute margins; flowers cream-color.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa