Flora of North America species comparison

erect (woolly).

decumbent to ascending.

(proximal usually mostly alternate): blades cuneate to obovate, 0.5–5 cm (the longer 1–2-pinnately lobed, lobes linear, the shorter 3–5-lobed or -toothed), ultimate margins entire, revolute, abaxial faces woolly, adaxial usually glabrate (distal leaves gradually reduced in size and lobing).

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

mostly 0–2.5(–9) cm.

1–8 cm.

campanulate, 3–7 mm diam.

hemispheric to obconic, 5–6 mm diam.

0 or 4–6(–8);

laminae golden yellow, 2–5 (× 1.5–3) mm.

6–10;

laminae yellow, 2–10 mm.

10–75;

corollas 2–4 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).

4–7, distinct or connate at bases (broadly elliptic or ovate, carinate, apices obtuse or acute).

6–10, ± connate.

(3–)4–7(–10) or 10–30+ per array.

borne singly.

1.5–3.5 mm;

pappi of 2–14 cuneate to oblanceolate (subequal), erose scales 0.5–1.3 mm.

2.2–3 mm;

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