OregonFlora species comparison

ascending to erect, glabrous to sparsely pubescent.

? 7 × as long as wide;

margins entire;

tips acute;

surfaces glabrous to sparsely puberulent;

basal leaves present at flowering, narrowly elliptic to obovate, 5–15 cm, petiolate;

cauline linear to narrowly elliptic, 3–6(12) cm, subpetiolate to sessile.

open; panicle-like arrays, usually few-branched.

5–10 mm.

15–40;

rays 9–15 mm, violet.

in 3–5 unequal series, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, bases scarious-margined;

tips acute, sometimes ± obtuse, green;

surfaces glabrous to sparsely puberulent.

pubescent;

pappus bristles 5–7 mm; whitish.

3–50.