Flora of North America species comparison

villous, eglandular.

erect, simple, slender, wandlike, striate, villous or glabrate, glandular or eglandular.

oblong to oblanceolate (principal 3-nerved), (15–)20–45(–55) × (3–)5–13 mm, sharply serrate.

present at flowering;

sessile;

blades linear to oblong or oblanceolate, 8–55 × 1–13 mm, bases cuneate, margins sharply serrate (teeth fine, sharp, bristly), apices obtuse, faces densely villous or adaxial sometimes glabrate or glabrous.

campanulate;

staminate 4–6 mm, pistillate 6–8.5 mm.

20–30;

corollas 3.5–5 mm.

19–26;

corollas 4–7 mm.

lanceolate, 2–6 mm, margins scarious, medians green (villous), apices acute to acuminate, ciliate, sometimes glandular.

(50–100+) in compact paniculiform or corymbiform arrays.

2.5–3.6 mm, 5-nerved, villous, viscid;

pappi 7–8.5 mm.

= 18.