Flora of North America species comparison

usually hairy (hairs spreading to ascending, to 2 mm), sometimes glabrous.

usually hairy (hairs appressed to ascending, spreading on adaxial leaf faces, to 1.2 mm), rarely glabrous.

usually brownish green.

light green to tan.

petioles 0–17(–25) cm;

blades 3- or 5-nerved, ovate to narrowly lanceolate, 5–30 × (1–)5–12 cm, bases usually rounded to cordate, margins usually serrate to dentate, rarely entire.

petioles 0–12(–20) cm;

blades (1-), 3-, or 5-nerved, usually linear or lanceolate, rarely ovate, 5–30 × 0.5–3 cm, bases attenuate, margins usually entire.

8–25 cm.

20–50 cm.

paleae 9–15 mm, tips red-orange, straight or slightly curved, sharp-pointed.

paleae 9–15 mm, tips red to orange-tipped, usually straight, sharp-pointed.

pink to purple, laminae spreading to recurved, 30–80 × 7–19 mm, sparsely hairy abaxially.

purple, rarely pink or white, laminae reflexed, 19–35 × 2–7 mm, glabrous or sparsely hairy abaxially.

4.5–5.7 mm, lobes greenish to pink or purple.

4.5–5.5 mm, lobes greenish to pink or purple.

linear to lanceolate, 8–17 × 1–8 mm.

linear to lanceolate, 6–15 × 1–3 mm.

off-white, 3.5–5 mm, usually glabrous (ray cypselae sometimes hairy on angles);

pappi ca. 1.2 mm (teeth equal).

tan, 4–5 mm, faces finely tuberculate, glabrous;

pappi to 1.2 mm (major teeth 3–4).

conic, 14–45 × 20–40 mm.

ovoid to conic, 25–35 × 20–40 mm.

= 22.

= 11.