Flora of North America species comparison

simple or branched (branches diffuse, relatively short, bracted), hirsutulous to strigose, often ± pilose, often glandular, especially distally.

mostly alternate, sometimes opposite to beyond midstems, 3–8 cm, ± hispidulous and ± long-hairy (especially margins and adaxial faces).

2–6;

corollas white or cream to rose, or yellow, tubes ca. 3 mm (papillate), laminae 5–10 mm (central lobes smaller than laterals, symmetric, widest at bases, laterals strongly asymmetric, sinuses usually 1/3–1/2 laminae).

4–20: corollas white or cream to rose, or yellow, 6–10 mm.

(± reddish) 4–10 mm, abaxial faces hispidulous, often with long bristles, shaggy long-hairy, especially distally and along margins, glandular, tack-glands (0–)l–15+.

borne singly or in spiciform (often congested) arrays.

ca. 2.5 mm, nearly smooth to ± appressed-hairy;

pappi of ca. 11 lanceolate-aristate scales ca. 2.5–4.5 mm (2–3 shorter, blunt).

ca. 2.5 mm, smooth, glabrous or ± appressed-hairy.

bracts (often reddish) usually narrowly lanceolate, sometimes narrowed and ± cylindric toward apices, 4–20 mm hispidulous, ± bristly, especially along margins, ± glandular, apices acute, rounded, or truncate, tack-glands usually 2–6+.

4–10 mm.

= 12.