Flora of North America species comparison

± erect.

decumbent to ascending.

(proximal usually alternate, sometimes opposite): blades linear, lanceolate, or ovate, 3–7 cm, usually 1–2-pinnately lobed, ultimate margins entire or toothed, revolute, abaxial faces white-woolly, adaxial glabrate (distal leaves usually similar).

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

mostly 0–1(–1.5) cm.

1–8 cm.

campanulate, 2–3+ mm diam.

hemispheric to obconic, 5–6 mm diam.

0 or 6–9;

laminae yellow, 3–5 (× 2–3) mm.

6–10;

laminae yellow, 2–10 mm.

30–40;

corollas 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).

8–11, distinct (oblong, carinate, apices obtuse or acute).

6–10, ± connate.

40–80+ per array.

borne singly.

3–4 mm;

pappi of 8–12 oblong or oblanceolate scales ca. 1 mm.

2.2–3 mm;

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

= 30.