Flora of North America species comparison

erect to spreading or ascending.

erect (woolly).

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

1–3 cm.

mostly 0–2.5(–9) cm.

broadly campanulate, 4–6 mm diam.

campanulate, 3–7 mm diam.

5–10;

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

0 or 4–6(–8);

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

20–30;

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

10–75;

corollas 2–4 mm.

5–10, distinct.

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

usually borne singly.

(3–)4–7(–10) or 10–30+ per array.

± 2 mm;

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

1.5–3.5 mm;

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

= 10 + 0–1 I or 0–3 B.