Flora of North America species comparison

erect to spreading or ascending.

decumbent to ascending.

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

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

1–3 cm.

1–8 cm.

broadly campanulate, 4–6 mm diam.

hemispheric to obconic, 5–6 mm diam.

5–10;

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

6–10;

laminae yellow, 2–10 mm.

20–30;

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).

5–10, distinct.

6–10, ± connate.

usually borne singly.

borne singly.

± 2 mm;

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

2.2–3 mm;

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

= 10 + 0–1 I or 0–3 B.