OregonFlora species comparison

erect to decumbent-ascending; hirsute, eglandular;

hairs usually spreading and slightly reflexed.

withering by flowering.

oblong to narrowly oblanceolate, 10–30 × 1–4 mm, slightly reduced distally or not;

margins entire;

surfaces moderately to densely hirsute, eglandular.

4–6 × 8–14 mm.

20–40, lavender to purple;

rays 4–6 × 0.7–2 mm.

corollas 3.5–5 mm.

in 2–3 unequal series;

surfaces glabrous to very sparsely hirsute, densely minutely glandular.

2–3 mm, sparsely to densely strigose;

inner pappi of numerous barbellate bristles.

1–4 in loose corymb-like arrays, radiate.