Flora of North America species comparison

petioles 5–20+ mm;

blades ± deltate to ovate overall, 40–75(–150) × 10–45(–130) mm, usually laciniately 1–2-pinnatisect, ultimate lobes (3–)5–7+, oblanceolate or lanceolate to linear, (5–)10–30(–80+) × (1–)4–8(–12+) mm, bases cuneate, ultimate margins incised, dentate, serrate, or entire, little, if at all, ciliate, apices acute to attenuate, faces glabrous or ± hirtellous to strigillose.

20–150 mm.

hemispheric or broader, 4–6(–8) × 6–12 mm.

(7–)8–9;

laminae golden yellow, 10–30 mm.

40–60(–80+);

corollas yellow, 3–5 mm.

6–8(–10), oblong, 3–8 mm.

of (6–)8(–11), ascending to spreading, spatulate to linear, sometimes ± foliaceous bractlets or bracts 3–10(–18) mm, margins sometimes ciliate, abaxial faces glabrous.

usually in open, ± corymbiform arrays.

blackish or brown, flattened, narrowly cuneate, outer 3–6 mm, inner 5–9 mm (lengths mostly 2.5–4 times widths), margins antrorsely barbed or ciliate, apices ± truncate, faces obscurely 1-nerved, sometimes tuberculate, glabrous or sparsely hispidulous;

pappi of 2 erect, ± patently barbed awns or scales (0.4–)1–2.5(–4) mm.

= 24.