Flora of North America species comparison

1–25+, erect to spreading.

mostly 1–12;

branches mainly proximal.

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, 1–7(–10) cm;

largest blades linear and terete or ± elliptic and plane, ± succulent, 0–1-pinnately lobed;

lobes 1–2(–5) pairs, remote, ± terete.

mostly ascending to erect, 1–10 cm.

2–8(–10) cm, distally usually ± stipitate-glandular and, sometimes, ± arachnoid (at least early, often glabrescent by fruit).

obconic to ± hemispheric.

± hemispheric to obconic (bases pale and ± truncate in fruit).

corollas white to pinkish, 5–8 mm (inner);

peripheral corollas spreading, zygomorphic, enlarged.

5–8 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 8–10(–12) mm;

outer usually glabrescent in fruit, apices erect, acute, ± rigid.

1–25+ per stem.

(± radiant) mostly 1–5 per stem.

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

pappi: longest scales 3–6 mm.

(3–)6–8 mm;

pappi of (1–)4(–5) scales in 1 series, longest scales 6–8.5 mm, lengths 1–1.3 times corollas (apices visible among corollas at flowering).

= 10.