OregonFlora species comparison

decumbent to erect; hirsute with unequal hairs, sparsely 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, obovate, 15–90 × 5–20 mm;

margins coarsely serrate to shallowly lobulate;

surfaces sparsely to moderately hirsute to strigose.

obovate to elliptic; little or not reduced distally;

surfaces sparsely to moderately hirsute.

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

4–7 × 9–15 mm.

turbinate or campanulate to hemispheric.

flat to conic, pitted;

paleae 0.

30–60, pink to purple;

rays 4–5 × 0.5–1 mm.

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 3–5 mm.

usually bisexual;

corollas short, yellow.

in 2–3 series, pale green with dark green medial stripe;

surfaces remotely hirsute, strongly stipitate-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 several unbarbed to weakly barbellate twisted 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.

1–4, radiate.

radiate, disciform, or discoid.