Flora of North America species comparison

much branched from bases, pubescent, often gland-dotted.

branched, pubescent, gland-dotted.

opposite;

petioles 4–12 mm;

blades 3-nerved from bases, broadly ovate to deltate, 10–60 × 10–30 mm, bases truncate, hastate, or subcordate, margins usually toothed (1–3 sets of sharp teeth near bases), rarely subentire, apices attenuate, faces minutely pubescent.

mostly alternate, sometimes opposite;

petioles 0–5 mm;

blades 3-nerved from bases (venation raised, reticulate), elliptic to lanceolate or ovate to subdeltate, 20–70 × 7–20 mm, bases ± cuneate, margins crenate to serrate, apices acute, faces glandular-pubescent.

5–40 mm, pubescent and sometimes gland-dotted.

2–15 mm, tomentose, often gland-dotted.

cylindric to campanulate, 8–12 mm.

narrowly cylindric, 10–13 mm.

13–25;

corollas pale yellow-green, often purple-tinged, 7–8.2 mm.

9–24;

corollas pale yellow-green, 6–8.2 mm.

17–22 in 4–6 series, greenish, often purple-tinged, 4–5-striate, unequal, margins scarious (apices acute to acuminate or mucronate, minutely pubescent);

outer lance-ovate to narrowly lanceolate (glabrous or sparsely pubescent), inner narrowly lanceolate to linear (glabrous).

18–20 in 3–4(–5) series, green or purplish, 5–9-striate, unequal, margins scarious (apices acute, attenuate, obtuse, or nearly rounded);

outer ovate (lengths evenly grading to inner, margins ciliate, faces pubescent, often gland-dotted), inner narrowly lanceolate to linear-oblong (faces glabrous).

in loose, paniculiform arrays.

in paniculiform arrays.

3–5 mm, hispidulous, strigose, or glandular-pubescent;

pappi of 28–40 smooth or barbellulate bristles.

2.5–4 mm, densely pubescent;

pappi of 32–43 white, mostly barbellate, sometimes subplumose, bristles.