Lidbeckia

Subshrubs, pilose. Leaves alternate, sessile or shortly petiolate, pinnately or digitately lobed, glandular-punctate, pilose or glabrous. Capitula radiate, many-flowered, solitary, on short or long, pilose or glabrous peduncles. Involucre campanulate; bracts in 3 rows, lanceolate, sometimes ciliate, densely villous or glabrous. Receptacle convex, epaleate, pilose. Rayflorets female, sterile or neuter; corolla white, sometimes pilose; tube compressed, with oblong-linear, 2-toothed lamina 3-4 times longer than tube. Discflorets bisexual, fertile; corolla tube somewhat compressed, sometimes pilose, with 4 ovate lobes. Anthers ecalcarate and ecaudate; with oblong, apical appendage. Style terete, with somewhat thickened base and with linear, truncate branches; stylopodium large and persistent in fruit, with thin-walled cells. Cypselas ellipsoid, 3-8-ribbed, glandular. Pappus 0.