OregonFlora species comparison

ascending to erect, glabrous to sparsely pubescent.

< 7 × as long as wide;

margins generally entire;

surfaces usually glabrous;

basal present at flowering, elliptic to obovate, 3–20 cm;

tips acute or sometimes rounded, petiolate;

cauline elliptic to obovate, 3–12 cm, bases cuneate to sometimes rounded, subpetiolate to sessile.

open; panicle-like arrays.

6–16 mm.

15–50(60);

rays 8–18 mm, violet-purple.

in 4–6 subequal series, oblanceolate to oblong or linear;

tips acute;

surfaces glabrous or puberulent; inner bases scarious-margined;

tips green; outer often leaf-like, bases not scarious-margined.

pubescent;

pappus bristles 5–8 mm, white to pale brown.

1–12.

=16, 32, 48, 64.