OregonFlora species comparison

erect, rarely decumbent, striate.

cauline; opposite;

blades lanceolate to elliptic to broadly ovate;

margins entire or serrulate to serrate, 3-veined;

surfaces nearly glabrous to pilose or glandular-pilose, petiolate.

leafy-bracted; cyme-like clusters, generally small.

hemispheric to campanulate.

conical, paleate.

0–8(15), pistillate, fertile;

corollas white or dull white to pinkish;

lobes 0–3.

5–50(150); bisexual, fertile;

corollas yellow, pilose;

tubes < cylindric throats;

lobes 5, deltate;

anthers yellow, rarely brown;

style branch tips acute.

6–9(16); in 2(3) series, herbaceous or scarious.

glabrous or strigose;

pappi of (0)14–20 scales, persistent, white or gray, fimbriate, sometimes awned.

radiate, rarely discoid.

persistent or deciduous, united in groups of 2 or 3 to adjacent proximal phyllary; each complex often enclosing a ray achene; convex to folded, lanceolate to obovate, scarious;

margins entire or 2- or 3-lobed.