Flora of North America species comparison

basal;

petiole 0.5–3 cm;

blade oblanceolate, 1–3(–5) × 0.4–1(–1.3) cm, thinly pubescent.

with involucres in open clusters 2–4(–6) cm diam., greenish or reddish to purplish;

bracts 2–3 at proximal node, usually leaflike, often with whorl of sessile bracts ca. midstem, elliptic, 0.5–1.5 cm × 2–6 mm, gradually becoming lanceolate to elliptic, 0.2–2 cm × 1.5–8 mm, at distal nodes scalelike, linear and aciculate, acerose, awns straight, 1–3 mm.

3–10 or more, grayish or reddish, urceolate and slightly ventricose basally, 4–6 mm, without scarious or membranous margins, slightly corrugate, strigose;

teeth erect to spreading, unequal, 1–2 mm;

awns mostly uncinate, 0.5–2 mm, with longer anterior one straight, mostly 2 mm.

exserted;

perianth bicolored with floral tube white to yellow and tepals red, maroon, or dark purple, cylindric, (4.5–)5–6 mm, sparsely pubescent;

tepals connate 1/2 their length, dimorphic, obovate, those of outer whorl spreading, slightly longer than those of inner whorl, 2-lobed, emarginate, or subacute apically, those of inner whorl erect, obtuse, fimbriate apically;

stamens 9, exserted;

filaments distinct, 4–5 mm, glabrous;

anthers yellow to golden, oblong, 1.2–1.8 mm.

deeply 2-lobed, occasionally erose apically.

brown, globose-lenticular, 4–4.5 mm.

= 40.

= (34, 36, 38), 40, (42, 44, 46).