Flora of North America species comparison

erect (woolly).

erect to spreading or 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 obovate to spatulate, 7–20 mm, sometimes 3-lobed, ultimate margins entire, plane (apices ± rounded), faces ± woolly.

mostly 0–2.5(–9) cm.

1–3 cm.

campanulate, 3–7 mm diam.

broadly campanulate, 4–6 mm diam.

0 or 4–6(–8);

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

5–10;

laminae usually cream or yellow, sometimes white with red veins, 3–4 mm.

10–75;

corollas 2–4 mm.

20–30;

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).

5–10, distinct.

(3–)4–7(–10) or 10–30+ per array.

usually borne singly.

1.5–3.5 mm;

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

± 2 mm;

pappi usually of 6–10 ± oblong scales 0.4–0.8 mm, rarely 0.

= 10 + 0–1 I or 0–3 B.