Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent to ascending.

erect (woolly).

blades oblong to oblanceolate, 5–40 mm, margins entire or toothed, plane (apices rounded to acute), faces lanate or tometose to tomentulose.

(proximal alternate): blades rhombic to obovate, 2–6 cm, 1-pinnately lobed (lobes 3–5, ± triangular), ultimate margins entire, revolute, abaxial faces loosely woolly, adaxial glabrate (distal leaves gradually reduced in size and lobing).

1–8 cm.

mostly 2–7 cm.

hemispheric to obconic, 5–6 mm diam.

broadly campanulate, 5–6(–7) mm diam.

6–10;

laminae yellow, 2–10 mm.

(6–)8–10(–13);

laminae yellow, 6–10 (× 4.5–5) mm.

10–30;

corollas 1.3–3 mm (tubes cylindric, throats broadly funnelform, abruptly dilated, lobes glabrous or hairy, hairs 1-celled, not glandular; anther appendages deltate, widest at bases, not glandular).

40–75;

corollas 3–4.5 mm.

6–10, ± connate.

6–10, distinct (ovate, carinate, apices acute).

borne singly.

2–5(–10) in corymbiform arrays.

2.2–3 mm;

pappi 0 or of 6–10 ± ovate to cuneate, entire, erose, or laciniate scales 0.1–0.5 mm.

2–3 mm;

pappi of 4 cuneate to oblanceolate scales 0.3–1 mm alternating with 4 shorter scales (in disc cypselae, disc pappi longer than ray pappi).

= 32.