Flora of North America species comparison

1–25+, erect to spreading.

basal, or basal (sometimes withering) and ± cauline, (1–)2–12(–15) cm;

largest blades ± elliptic or slightly lanceolate to ovate, ± 3-dimensional, usually 2-pinnately lobed;

primary lobes (4–)5–9(–12) pairs, ± congested, scarcely imbricate, ultimate lobes ± involute and/or twisted.

basal (withering) and cauline, 3–15(–20) cm;

largest blades ± plane, not succulent;

primary lobes mostly 5–10 pairs, ultimate lobes ± crowded, antrorse, lanceolate to elliptic, plane.

mostly ascending to erect, 1–10 cm.

1.5–6 cm.

obconic to ± hemispheric.

± hemispheric, mostly 10–15 mm diam.

paleae 0.

5–8 mm.

5–7 mm.

longest 9–15(–17) mm;

outer usually stipitate-glandular (sometimes sparsely or obscurely, rarely eglandular) and, often, arachnoid to lanuginose and, sometimes, sparsely villous, apices usually ± squarrose, pliant.

longest 7–10(–12) mm, ± densely villous, not or sparsely glandular;

apices (all) erect, ± green, acute or scarcely acuminate, not aristate, ± plane.

1–25+ per stem.

5–8 mm (usually sparsely glandular amidst other indument);

pappi: longest scales 3–6 mm.

compressed, 4–7 mm;

pappi 0 or coroniform (of ± 10 scales, longest 0.1–0.5 mm).

= 16.