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The pole is also known as Qiu Ying. Annual or perennial herbs with 1-2 meters high. Root spindle shaped, fibrous root, or near stem base with adventitious roots. Stems glabrous or slightly pilose. Leaves two pinnate, deeply lobed, lobes linear or filiform linear. Head inflorescence single, 3-6 cm in diameter. Involucre bracts outer lanceolate or linear lanceolate, nearly leathery, pale green, with dark purple stripes. The lingual flowers are purple, pink or white; the tongue is oval oval oval shaped, 2-3 cm long, 1.2-1.8 cm wide and 3-5 blunt teeth; tubular flowers yellow, 6-8 mm long, short tube, upper cylindrical, and lanceolate lobes. Achenes dark purple, glabrous, upper end with long beak, 2-3 spines. The flowering period is 6-8 months, and the fruit period is 9-10 months.

adventitious lanceolate short single linear cylindrical flowering meters teeth outer known leathery lobed calliopsis wide purple lingual stripes shaped diameter blunt dark pole bracts near involucre stem pale tubular roots qiu months flowers high leaves glabrous green also oval base fruit ying pink nearly yellow end root stems period slightly achenes head herbs spines annual white inflorescence fibrous long pilose spindle tube two upper beak tongue perennial deeply filiform pinnate lobes