Flora of North America species comparison

usually simple, sometimes branched.

branched (prominently ribbed, strongly stipitate-glandular; caudices woody).

2–4(–6) pairs, mostly cauline (basal often persistent on sterile rosettes);

petiolate;

blades cordate or subcordate to ovate, 3–10 × 2–10 cm, margins dentate to coarsely dentate, apices acute to rounded, faces puberulent to sparsely villous, sometimes stipitate-glandular (especially adaxial).

5–10 pairs (main stems, 2–6 pairs on branches; basal withered by flowering), cauline;

sessile;

blades obovate-oblong to ovate-oblong, (1–)2–4(–5) × 1–3 cm, margins ± entire, apices acute, faces sparsely to densely pilose, densely stipitate-glandular.

broadly campanulate.

narrowly turbinate.

6–13;

corollas yellow.

0.

corollas yellow;

anthers yellow.

10–30;

corollas cream;

anthers yellow.

10–20, narrowly ovate to lanceolate.

10–20, broadly lanceolate (stipitate-glandular).

1, or 3–5(–10).

10–20.

dark gray, 5–10 mm, sparsely to densely hirsute (hairs duplex), sometimes stipitate-glandular as well;

pappi white, bristles barbellate.

dark gray, 4.5–6.5 mm, stipitate-glandular;

pappi usually white, rarely tawny, bristles barbellate to subplumose.

= 38, 57, 76, 95, 114.

= 38.