Flora of North America species comparison

sparsely to densely hairy (hairs spreading).

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

mostly green to purplish.

usually brownish green.

petioles 4–20 cm;

blades (1-), 3-, or 5-nerved, linear to lanceolate, 5–40 × 0.5–4 cm, bases attenuate, margins entire (usually ciliate).

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.

20–40+ cm.

8–25 cm.

paleae 10–14 mm, tips pinkish to purple, incurved, sharp-pointed.

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

rose to pink or white, laminae drooping to reflexed, 40–90 × 4–7 mm, glabrous or sparsely hairy abaxially.

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

5–6.5 mm, lobes pink to purplish.

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

lanceolate to ovate, 7–15 × 1.5–3.5 mm.

linear to lanceolate, 8–17 × 1–8 mm.

tan, 3–4.5 mm, faces smooth, usually glabrous, sometimes (rays) hairy;

pappi to ca. 1 mm (usually without major teeth).

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

pappi ca. 1.2 mm (teeth equal).

conic to hemispheric, 20–30 × 20–30 mm.

conic, 14–45 × 20–40 mm.

= 22.

= 22.