OregonFlora species comparison

erect;

surfaces glabrous to rarely remotely hirsute, sometimes minutely glandular distally.

erect; hirsute, eglandular to minutely glandular.

usually withering by flowering, oblanceolate to spatulate.

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.

lanceolate, 20–80 × 5–15 mm, gradually reduced distally, bases ± clasping;

margins entire, usually long-ciliate;

surfaces glabrous, rarely remotely strigose.

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

3–7 × 11–16 mm.

4–7 × 10–16 mm.

40–115+, lavender to purple;

rays 7–11 × 0.7–1.5 mm.

20–60;

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

2–3 mm.

corollas 4–5 mm.

in 2–3+ series, usually with orange stripe;

surfaces basally hirsute to villous, occasionally minutely glandular.

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

2–3 mm, glabrous to sparsely strigose;

inner pappi of numerous barbellate bristles.

2–3 mm, moderately strigose;

inner pappi of numerous barbellate bristles.

1–5+ in corymb-like arrays, radiate.

1, radiate or disciform.