Flora of North America species comparison

0 or 1 (erect, 0–5 cm).

0.

mostly erect, sometimes prostrate;

petioles not purplish, margins glabrous or ciliate;

blades usually oblanceolate to spatulate, rarely linear, 1–25 cm, margins entire or lobed;

lobes 2–3 pairs, linear to spatulate, spreading to antrorse, lobules mostly 0, glabrous or densely hairy.

spreading to prostrate;

blades 2–12 cm × 3–9(–12) mm, mostly lobed, lobes 2–3 pairs, abaxially glabrous, adaxially pubescent.

elongating after flowering, 3–60 cm in fruit, glabrous or glabrate, or basally puberulent and apically hairy to tomentose, sometimes stipitate-glandular.

0–26 cm, lengths mostly less than 0.5 times leaves at flowering, 0.5–3 times leaves in fruit, ± glabrate, or apically tomentose.

cylindric to hemispheric, 1–2 cm in fruit.

epaleate.

5–100(–300);

corollas yellow, tubes 1–5 mm, ligules 2–15 × 1–3 mm;

anthers 1–4 mm.

15–30+;

corollas ± equaling phyllaries at flowering, tubes 2–3 mm, ligules 2–3 × 0.8–1.5 mm;

anthers ca. 1 mm.

in 2–3 series, green or medially rosy purple, sometimes purple-black spotted or tipped, subequal to unequal, margins glabrous or ciliate, faces usually puberulent to villous, mostly stipitate-glandular, sometimes glabrous;

outer erect or spreading, adaxially usually villous to lanate, sometimes glabrous;

inner erect, ± elongating after flowering.

7–16 mm, bodies mostly fusiform to obconic, sometimes tumid, 2–5(–10) mm, beaks 5–11 mm, lengths 1–4 times bodies, ribs 0 or alate, straight to strongly undulate, uniform or diminishing proximally;

pappus bristles in 2–3 series, 4–9 mm.