Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent to ascending.

decumbent to ascending.

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

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

1–5 cm.

1–8 cm.

campanulate to obconic, 3–5 mm diam.

hemispheric to obconic, 5–6 mm diam.

8–10;

laminae white with red veins, 3–5 mm.

6–10;

laminae yellow, 2–10 mm.

10–20;

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

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).

8–10, distinct.

6–10, ± connate.

borne singly.

borne singly.

2.5–4.5 mm;

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

2.2–3 mm;

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

= 8.