Flora of North America species comparison

erect to ascending (usually abruptly dilated proximal to heads), villous (more densely so on proximal 1/2), eglandular.

erect, sparsely piloso-hispid (hairs spreading), sometimes strigose distally, eglandular.

basal (persistent) and cauline;

basal blades oblanceolate to obovate or suborbiculate, subspatulate, 20–130(–180) × 6–30(–50) mm;

cauline gradually reduced distally (bases clasping and slightly auriculate), margins usually dentate to denticulate, rarely entire, faces sparsely to moderately hirsute to hirsuto-villous, sometimes glabrate or glabrous (especially adaxially), eglandular.

basal (usually withering by flowering) and cauline;

basal blades mostly lanceolate to oblanceolate or ovate, 15–80 × 3–20 mm, margins coarsely serrate to nearly entire, faces sparsely strigoso-hirsute, eglandular;

cauline lanceolate to oblong, little reduced proximal to midstem.

5–7 × 6–20 mm.

3–5 × 6–12 mm.

50–80(–100);

corollas light blue to purplish, pink, or white, 6–10 mm, laminae coiling tardily at tips.

80–125;

corollas white, 4–10 mm, laminae tardily coiling.

4.5–6 mm.

2–2.8 mm.

in 2–3(–4) series, sparsely to moderately hirsute to hirsuto-villous (cross walls not distinctly colored), minutely glandular to stipitate-glandular.

in 2–3(–4) series, sparsely villous or hirsuto-villous, minutely glandular.

1–4(–9).

ca. 5–50+ in loosely paniculiform or corymbiform arrays.

1.3–1.8 mm, 2(–4)-nerved, faces sparsely strigose to glabrate or glabrous;

pappi: outer 0 or of setae, inner of (22–)28–36 bristles.

0.8–1 mm, 2-nerved, faces sparsely strigose;

pappi: outer minute crowns of setae or narrow scales, inner 0 (rays) or of 8–11 bristles (disc).

= 27.