OregonFlora species comparison

erect or with decumbent and ascending lower branches, glabrous or sparsely hispid.

elliptic-lanceolate to oblanceolate or linear, 1–20+ cm, bases truncate or attenuate;

margins entire to denticulate or serrate;

tips acute;

surfaces glabrous, sessile or lowest pairs petiolate.

hemispheric or broader, 12–20 mm in diameter.

3–8, sometimes 0;

rays 2–15+ mm, orange-yellow.

10–100+;

corollas orange-yellow, 3–4 mm.

outer 5–8, usually spreading or reflexed, sometimes enlarged and up to 2 cm; inner series 5–10 mm, glabrous.

wedge-shaped, 4–8 mm;

margins sometimes winged, retrorsely barbed or ciliate;

pappi of (2)4 retrorsely barbed awns, 2–4 mm.

solitary and terminal on stems and branches or in corymb-like arrays; erect or nodding;

peduncles 1–4(10) cm.

=24, 48.