Flora of North America species comparison

erect to spreading or ascending.

erect (densely white-woolly).

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

(proximal alternate): blades ovate, 3–6 cm, 1-pinnatately lobed (lobes 5–7, linear), ultimate margins entire, revolute, abaxial faces woolly, adaxial glabrate (distal leaves gradually reduced in size and lobing).

1–3 cm.

mostly 5–10(–14) cm.

broadly campanulate, 4–6 mm diam.

broadly campanulate, 5–7 mm diam.

5–10;

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

6–8;

laminae yellow, 6–10 (× 4–5) mm.

20–30;

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

35–50;

corollas 3–5 mm.

5–10, distinct.

6–8, distinct (ovate, carinate, apices acute).

usually borne singly.

2–4 per array.

± 2 mm;

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

2–3 mm;

pappi of 8 lanceolate to lance-linear, erose scales 1–1.5 mm.

= 10 + 0–1 I or 0–3 B.

= 64.