Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent to ascending.

erect (woolly).

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

(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).

1–5 cm.

mostly 0–2.5(–9) cm.

campanulate to obconic, 3–5 mm diam.

campanulate, 3–7 mm diam.

8–10;

laminae white with red veins, 3–5 mm.

0 or 4–6(–8);

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

10–20;

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

10–75;

corollas 2–4 mm.

8–10, distinct.

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

borne singly.

(3–)4–7(–10) or 10–30+ per array.

2.5–4.5 mm;

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

1.5–3.5 mm;

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

= 8.