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 alternate): blades rhombic to obovate, 2–6 cm, 1-pinnately lobed (lobes 3–5, ± triangular), ultimate margins entire, revolute, abaxial faces loosely woolly, adaxial glabrate (distal leaves gradually reduced in size and lobing).

1–3 cm.

mostly 2–7 cm.

broadly campanulate, 4–6 mm diam.

broadly campanulate, 5–6(–7) mm diam.

5–10;

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

(6–)8–10(–13);

laminae yellow, 6–10 (× 4.5–5) mm.

20–30;

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

40–75;

corollas 3–4.5 mm.

5–10, distinct.

6–10, distinct (ovate, carinate, apices acute).

usually borne singly.

2–5(–10) in corymbiform arrays.

± 2 mm;

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

2–3 mm;

pappi of 4 cuneate to oblanceolate scales 0.3–1 mm alternating with 4 shorter scales (in disc cypselae, disc pappi longer than ray pappi).

= 10 + 0–1 I or 0–3 B.

= 32.