Flora of North America species comparison

lobes linear, 3–30 × 0.5–3 mm.

mostly cauline on proximal 2/3–7/8 of plant heights;

petioles 0 or 10–35+ mm;

blades usually 1(–2)-irregularly pinnately or ± pedately lobed with (3–)5–9+ lobes, rarely simple, simple blades or terminal lobes narrowly lanceolate to linear or filiform, 15–45(–90+) × (0.5–)2–8(–12+) mm.

5–25+ cm.

8–15(–25+) cm.

(5–)8+;

laminae 12–20(–30) mm.

yellow, 12–25+ mm.

(12–)40–100+;

corollas 4–6.6 mm.

3.3–4.8 mm, apices yellow.

(5–)8, lance-ovate to lanceolate, 6–10+ mm.

lance-ovate, 7–9(–12) mm.

of 3–5 ovate-deltate bractlets (3–)4–6 mm.

of lanceolate to linear bractlets 3.5–9+ mm.

2–3+ mm, wings spreading, ± chartaceous, entire or irregularly toothed to pectinate.

oblanceolate to linear, 5–6 mm;

pappi 3–4(–5) mm.

± oblong, 4–6 mm.

seldom basally adnate to and falling with disc cypselae.

nodes proximal to first peduncle usually 6–10+, distalmost 1–3 internodes 4–7+ cm.

= 24.

= 26 (+ 0–2B).