Flora of North America species comparison

2–5, erect, brown, mostly simple (bases woody), sparsely tomentose.

relatively numerous, erect, gray, simple (annual flowering branches leafy), loosely sericeous.

cauline, bicolor (white and green);

blades lanceolate, 7–15 × 1–2.5 cm, serrate (teeth ca. 2 mm), faces densely tomentose (abaxial) or glabrate (adaxial).

(semideciduous) cauline (sessile), gray-green;

blades oblanceolate, 0.5–3 × 0.2–1.5 cm (bases attenuate), 3-lobed or irregularly palmatifid (lobes narrow, apices acute), sparsely sericeous-lanate.

campanulate, 2.5–3 × 2–2.5 mm.

globose, 3.5–5 × 4–5 mm.

pistillate 3–5;

bisexual 9–10;

corollas pale yellow, 1.5–2 mm, sparsely glandular.

pistillate 8;

bisexual 20–35;

corollas yellow (tubular with broad throats), ca. 2 mm, glandular.

lanceolate (margins hyaline), densely tomentose.

ovate, sparsely sericeous.

(peduncles 0 or to 2 mm) in racemiform arrays 10–15 × 5–15 cm.

(mostly erect, peduncles 0 or to 25 mm) in racemiform arrays (4–)8–12(–14) × (0.5–)1–2(–4) cm.

ellipsoid, ca. 1 mm, glabrous.

(light brown) oblanceoloid (4–5-angled, broadest at truncate apices), 0.3–0.5 mm, glandular-pubescent (pappi coroniform, 0.3–0.6 mm, irregularly lacerate).

= 36.