Flora of North America species comparison

1–25+, erect to spreading.

mostly 1–5(–12; sometimes ± horizontal);

branches proximal and, often, distal.

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 (often withering) and cauline, 1–10 cm;

largest blades linear or ± elliptic, plane to 3-dimensional, succulent or not, (0–)1–2-pinnately lobed;

primary lobes 1–7 pairs, remote to ± congested, ultimate lobes ± plane, involute, twisted, and/or terete.

mostly ascending to erect, 1–10 cm.

1–20(–30) cm, distally stipitate-glandular, ± villous, arachnoid-sericeous, lanuginose, and/or glabrescent.

obconic to ± hemispheric.

± hemispheric to obconic or broadly cylindric.

corollas bright to dark yellow, 4–8 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 4.5–10 mm;

outer stipitate-glandular, ± villous, arachnoid-sericeous, lanuginose, and/or glabrescent in fruit, apices erect, blunt, ± rigid.

1–25+ per stem.

(± radiant) mostly 1–20+ per stem.

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

pappi: longest scales 3–6 mm.

3–9 mm (± terete);

pappi of (1–)4 scales in 1 series, or of (5–)8 scales in 2, abruptly unequal series, longest scales (1–)2–8 mm.

= 12.