OregonFlora species comparison

erect or decumbent-ascending, hispidulous or puberulent, rarely glabrous.

oblanceolate to broadly or narrowly elliptic, 5–20 cm × 5–35 mm;

margins entire or denticulate;

surfaces glabrous or puberulent.

sessile or petiolate.

13–25 mm.

0–30, inconspicuous, rarely exceeding the involucres.

25–50;

corollas 9–14 mm.

in 3–5 series; ovate to narrowly lanceolate;

margins sometimes sharply muricate;

surfaces glabrous or puberulent.

3–5.5 mm, brown, glabrous;

pappus bristles 6–9 mm.

solitary or 1–3 in raceme-like arrays, discoid or radiate, subtended by leafy bracts;

peduncles 1–50 mm.