Flora of North America species comparison

erect.

erect.

mostly alternate;

petioles 5–20 mm;

blades ovate to rounded-deltate, 20–35(–50) × 18–30(–45) mm, bases broadly cuneate to ± truncate, margins toothed, abaxial faces ± densely tomentulose (between veins), adaxial faces sparsely tomentulose, glabrescent.

opposite (proximal) and alternate;

petioles 25–35(–60+) mm;

blades deltate to lanceolate or elliptic, 25–55(–90+) × 20–30(–50+) mm, 1–2-pinnately lobed, bases cuneate, ultimate margins entire or toothed, abaxial faces sparsely pilosulous to strigillose, adaxial faces strigillose, both gland-dotted.

peduncles 0–3 mm;

involucres ± cup-shaped, 3–5 mm diam., tomentulose;

florets 12–20+.

peduncles 0.5–1.5 mm;

involucres shallowly cup-shaped (usually without black nerves), 2–3+ mm diam., glabrous or hispid to pilosulous;

florets 12–20+.

clustered, proximal to staminates;

florets 2(–3).

clustered, proximal to staminates;

florets 1.

bodies obconic to fusiform, 4–6 mm, tomentulose (little, if at all, stipitate-glandular), spines 15–20+, scattered or on distal 1/2, ± subulate (the proximal basally flattened), 2–3 mm, tips usually uncinate, sometimes straight.

bodies ± globose to pyriform, 2–3 mm, ± pilosulous, spines or tubercles 3–5+, near middles or distal, ± conic to acerose, 0.1–0.5+ mm, tips straight.

= 72.

= 34, 36.