Flora of North America species comparison

simple or branched among heads.

simple or branched.

(2–)3–4 pairs, basal and cauline (basal usually withered by flowering, petiolate or subsessile, blades ovate or nearly round to oblong-ovate, much smaller than cauline; sterile rosettes often present, proximal cauline often crowded toward stems bases); petiolate;

blades broadly to narrowly lanceolate, oblong-ovate, ovate-lanceolate, or round, 4–22 × 1–6 cm, (bases obtuse or cuneate to truncate) margins usually entire, sometimes sparsely denticulate, faces scantily to moderately pilose (hairs white), adaxial sparsely stipitate-glandular (distal cauline leaves sessile, extremely reduced, nearly linear to narrowly elliptic-lanceolate).

3–5 pairs, sometimes crowded toward bases (basal leaves often persistent on sterile rosettes); petiolate (petioles mostly broadly winged, 1–9 × 0.2–1.5 cm);

blades elliptic-ovate to spatulate, 2–8 × 1–4 cm, margins subentire to mostly irregularly dentate, apices acute, faces sparsely to densely villous, stipitate-glandular.

turbinate to narrowly campanulate.

turbinate-campanulate.

usually 0 (sometimes peripheral florets pistillate; corollas yellow, laminae rudimentary).

0.

20–50;

corollas yellow (1 or more lobes sometimes expanded, giving appearance of laminae);

anthers yellow.

15–50;

corollas yellow;

anthers yellow.

8–20, linear to narrowly lanceolate.

8–15, broadly to narrowly lanceolate.

(1–)3–9(–14; often nodding in bud).

1, or 3–9(–25).

brown to black, 4–7 mm, glabrous or sparsely stipitate-glandular to densely hirsute;

pappi usually stramineous, rarely tawny, bristles barbellate to ± subplumose.

black, 5–10 mm, sparsely stipitate-glandular;

pappi white, bristles barbellate.

= 38, 57, 76.

= 38, 76.