Flora of North America species comparison

basal;

petiole (0.5–)1–3 cm;

blade oblanceolate, (0.5–)1–5 × (0.3–)0.4–0.7(–1) cm, villous.

basal;

petiole 0.5–3 cm;

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

rather dense with secondary branches suppressed, greenish to reddish;

bracts 2, similar to proximal leaf blades only reduced, short-petiolate, becoming narrowly elliptic to linear-lanceolate and aciculate at distal nodes, acerose, 0.5–5 cm × 2–7 mm, awns 0.5–1.2 mm.

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.

1, greenish, cylindric, often ventricose basally, 1–3 mm, without scarious margins or if so then white to pink, thin, and restricted to basal portions of teeth, corrugate, villous abaxially;

teeth spreading, equal, 0.5–2 mm;

awns uncinate or straight with longer ones 2–3 mm and anterior one mostly 2.5–3 mm, these alternating with shorter 1–1.5(–1.7) mm ones.

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.

included to slightly exserted;

perianth bicolored with floral tube white and tepals white to rose, cylindric, 2–3 mm, pubescent abaxially;

tepals connate less than 1/4 their length, monomorphic, oblong, truncate to 3-lobed and distinctly cuspidate apically;

stamens 9, slightly exserted;

filaments distinct, 2–3 mm, glabrous;

anthers cream to rose, narrowly oblong, 0.3–0.4 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.

light brown, globose-lenticular, 2–3 mm.

brown, globose-lenticular, 4–4.5 mm.

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