Flora of North America species comparison

solitary to densely clumped, simple or branched among heads.

mostly simple.

4–8(–10) pairs, mostly cauline; usually sessile (sometimes with partly connate-sheathing bases), sometimes petiolate (proximalmost);

blades lance-elliptic, lanceolate, oblanceolate, obovate, or ovate, 4–12(–20) × (1–)2–6(–8) cm, margins subentire to dentate-serrate, apices usually acute, rarely obtuse, faces glabrate to pilose.

3–8 pairs, mostly crowded toward bases; petiolate (at least proximal);

blades elliptic to oblanceolate or obovate, 5–10 × 0.5–3.5 cm, margins entire, apices acute, faces densely hairy (hairs relatively short, curly) and sessile-glandular (distal leaves sessile, much reduced).

narrowly campanulate to turbinate.

campanulate to hemispheric.

(5–)7–17(–20);

corollas yellow.

5–12;

corollas yellow.

corollas yellow;

anthers yellow.

(functionally staminate): corollas yellow;

anthers yellow (styles rarely exserted).

8–15(–19), narrowly to broadly lanceolate.

5–12 (in 1 series), oblong or elliptic.

(1–)3–10(–20).

1–6.

brown, 4–8 mm, sparsely hirsutulous, stipitate-glandular;

pappi tawny, bristles subplumose.

brown to black, 4–10 mm, sparsely to densely hirsute (hairs usually simple, rarely duplex) and sparsely stipitate-glandular;

pappi 0.

= 38, 76.