Tagulinaw, Lilac Tassleflower

· An erect or ascending, variable, smooth or sparingly hairy, more or less branched plant 10 to 40 cm high.
· Leaves: sessile, somewhat fleshy and clasping, the lower ones being lyrate-lobed or sinuate toothed and 5 to 10 cm long, and the upper ones much smaller and usually entire. The undersurface usually tinged with violet hue.
· Flower: flowering heads are 12-24 cm in length and long-peduncled, their branches are usually dichotomous. Involucral bracts are green, cylindric, somewhat inflated below and above as long as the purple flowers. Flowers all perfect and tubular, the limb long, 5-toothed. No ray flowers.
· Fruits: achenes, narrowly oblong, about 2.4 mm long and ribbed. The pappus is white, soft and copious.