OregonFlora species comparison

often purple, glabrous or villous-puberulent, not glandular.

basal and cauline, obovate or oblanceolate to lanceolate or linear, 2–10 cm, bases acute to truncate, sometimes auriculate;

margins entire to denticulate or serrate-dentate;

surfaces abaxially glabrous to sparsely villous, adaxially glabrous to densely strigose, sessile or short-petiolate.

6–9 mm.

10–30+;

corollas 7–15 mm; light to dark violet.

25–50+.

in 4–7 series, chartaceous below becoming herbaceous above or only at tips, lanceolate, rarely oblanceolate;

margins lined with purple (except some alpine plants in Wallowa Mountains), ciliate;

surfaces glabrous or puberulent.

3.5 mm; brownish, strigillose;

pappus bristles 5–6 mm.

peduncles 3–30 mm, scabrous to villous-puberulent.

=36.