Flora of North America species comparison

± erect.

erect to spreading.

(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 spatulate to cuneate, 3.5–10 mm, sometimes 1–3-lobed (each lobe terminating in short, sharp cusp), ultimate margins entire, weakly, if at all, revolute (apices acute), faces loosely woolly.

mostly 0–1(–1.5) cm.

± 0.1 cm.

campanulate, 2–3+ mm diam.

cylindric to obconic, 1–2+ mm diam.

0 or 6–9;

laminae yellow, 3–5 (× 2–3) mm.

0.

30–40;

corollas 4 mm.

± 3;

corollas ± 2 mm (tubes cylindric, throats broadly cylindric, abruptly dilated, lobes glandular; anther appendages deltate, tapering distally, not glandular).

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

3–4, distinct.

40–80+ per array.

borne singly or in clusters.

3–4 mm;

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

2–2.5 mm;

pappi of 12–14 linear to spatulate scales ± 1.5 mm.

= 30.