Flora of North America species comparison

0.

erect to decumbent;

petioles sometimes purplish, margins usually ± hairy, sometimes glabrous or ciliate;

blades linear-lanceolate to oblanceolate, (5–)10–20(–32) cm, margins usually lobed, sometimes entire (variable within plants, e.g., outer entire, inner lobed), rarely all entire;

lobes (3–)5–8 pairs, linear to lanceolate, mostly retrorse, sometimes spreading;

lobules often present, faces glabrous and glaucous or densely tomentose.

not notably elongating after flowering, [(6–)10–25(–45) cm in fruit], glabrate, or apically hairy to lanate, eglandular.

obconic to hemispheric, 2–3.5 cm in fruit.

epaleate.

30–100;

corollas yellow, tubes (4–)6–15 mm, ligules 10–20 × 2–4 mm;

anthers 3–5 mm.

in 2–3 series, usually medially rosy purple, rarely all green or spotted, margins ciliate or lanate, faces glabrous or sparsely villous, eglandular;

outer erect or spreading, adaxially ± tomentose (sometimes glabrous);

inner erect, not notably elongating after flowering.

9–18 mm, bodies terete or narrowly conic to obconic, 5–9 mm, beaks 3–10 mm, lengths (1/2–)2 times bodies;

pappus bristles in ca. 3 series, 10–20 mm.

= 18.