Flora of North America species comparison

mostly 5–15+, ascending to erect.

mostly cauline, 2–5 cm;

largest blades ± elliptic, ± plane, 1-pinnately lobed;

lobes mostly 2–5 pairs, remote, ± plane.

basal (often withering) and, usually, cauline, 1–6(–10) cm;

largest blades ± 3-dimensional, not to somewhat succulent;

primary lobes mostly 2–7(–10) pairs, ultimate lobes ± crowded to remote, antrorse, linear, terete.

ascending to erect, 2–5 cm.

2–6 cm.

± obconic.

obconic to ± cylindric or hemispheric, mostly 5–10 mm diam.

paleae (0–)3–10+ (persistent, ± phyllary-like, apices visible among mature floret buds).

7–9 mm.

4–6 mm.

longest (10–)12–15 mm;

outer closely lanuginose, not stipitate-glandular, apices erect, ± rigid.

longest 7–10 mm, ± granular-glandular and villous;

apices (all or inner) erect to incurved, usually reddish, acuminate, aristate, terete.

mostly 1–3 per stem.

7–9 mm (eglandular);

pappi: longest scales 3.5–5 mm.

± terete, 3–4.5 mm;

pappi usually of 4(–5) scales, longest 3–5 mm.