OregonFlora species comparison

glabrous nearly throughout, sometimes pilose or scabrous beneath heads.

lanceolate to elliptic, 20–50 × 4–10 cm, bases attenuate;

margins entire to sparsely serrate;

tips acute;

surfaces glaucous.

similar to basal, 10–25 × 2–8 cm.

conic or columnar, 25–40 × 15–20 mm.

7–15;

rays 25–40 mm.

250–400;

corollas 3–4 mm; yellowish green.

5–20 mm;

surfaces glabrous.

3.5–5 mm; black;

pappi partly fused, scaly crowns.

radiate; solitary or 2–10 in corymb-like arrays.

=36.