Crossword-Solution: OBCOMPRESSED 12 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 21

Short-caulescent, hoary with a closely appressed silky pubescence; leaflets 5--15, oblong, elliptic or obovate; flowers few, capitate or spicate, 5--8´´ long, violet; _calyx oblong, the teeth very slender_; pod oblong (1´ long), acute, _obtuse at base_, pubescent, nearly straight, obcompressed or obcompressed-triangular, depressed on the back and the ventral suture more or less prominent, transversely rugulose.--Sask.

Achenes all in the ray, obovate, obcompressed, 4-angled, each one partly enclosed by the short scale of the involucre behind it; pappus a small chaffy crown, 2--3-toothed, and wanting on the inner side.--A hairy, perennial herb, with opposite long-petioled leaves, and solitary long-peduncled heads of yellow flowers, nearly stemless when it begins to flower, the flowerless shoots forming runners.

Achenes only in the ray, obcompressed, surrounded by a slender callous margin, crowned with the persistent ray-corolla and a pappus of 2 small chaffy scales.--Leaves alternate.

Achenes flat, obcompressed (i.e., parallel with the scales of the involucre), often winged, not narrowed at the top, 2-toothed or 2-awned, or sometimes naked at the summit, the awns not barbed downwardly.--Herbs, generally with opposite leaves, and yellow or party-colored, rarely purple, rays.

Achenes flat (obcompressed, parallel to the scales), abruptly contracted into a beak, which is dilated at the apex, bearing a copious and fugacious very soft and white capillary pappus, its bristles falling separately.--Leafy-stemmed herbs, with panicled heads; flowers of variable color, produced in summer and autumn.