OregonFlora species comparison

erect; hirsute, eglandular to minutely glandular.

usually erect to ascending, occasionally decumbent, glabrous to densely hirsute, glandular or eglandular.

basal and/or cauline;

basal sometimes withering by flowering, alternate, broadly obovate to oblanceolate to narrowly spatulate to linear;

margins entire, lobed, or toothed;

surfaces glabrous to densely hirsute, glandular or eglandular;

cauline well developed or ± reduced distally, sessile or petiolate.

persistent in dense clusters, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 10–80 × 1–3 mm;

margins entire with hispid hairs;

surfaces hirsute to hispid, sometimes nearing strigose.

abruptly reduced to (0)1–3 linear bracts.

heads solitary on scapes or scape-like stems or few to many in corymb-, raceme-, or panicle-like arrays.

4–7 × 10–16 mm.

turbinate or campanulate to hemispheric.

flat to conic, pitted;

paleae 0.

20–60;

corollas with well-developed yellow rays, 4–8 × 0.5–2 mm, or tubular and short, or rays lacking.

0 or in 1(2) series, pistillate;

rays usually strap-shaped, sometimes filiform, sometimes very short or lacking, white, pink, lavender, purple, blue, yellow, or cream-colored.

corollas 4–5 mm.

usually bisexual;

corollas short, yellow.

in 2–3 series, sparsely to moderately hispid-villous, often minutely glandular.

usually in 2–3 series, numerous, often with a darkened medial or apical area;

surfaces glabrous to densely hirsute, glandular or eglandular.

2–3 mm, moderately strigose;

inner pappi of numerous barbellate bristles.

± oblong, flattened to ± cylindric, 2–7-veined, pappi of 2 series, outer of crowns; scales, or short bristles, inner of usually antrorsely barbellate, often accrescent; bristles, sometimes lacking.

1, radiate or disciform.

radiate, disciform, or discoid.