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 oblanceolate to linear, 5–20 mm, rarely lobed, ultimate margins, usually entire, plane (apices acute), faces sparsely woolly.

mostly 0–2.5(–9) cm.

1–5 cm.

campanulate, 3–7 mm diam.

campanulate to obconic, 3–5 mm diam.

0 or 4–6(–8);

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

8–10;

laminae white with red veins, 3–5 mm.

10–75;

corollas 2–4 mm.

10–20;

corollas 2–3 mm (tubes cylindric, throats funnelform, gradually dilated, lobes glandular; anther appendages subulate, not glandular).

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

8–10, distinct.

(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.

2.5–4.5 mm;

pappi of 5 subulate scales 1.5–2.5 mm plus 4–5 oblong scales ± 0.5 mm.

= 8.