Flora of North America species comparison

(from short caudices or stout rhizomes) single, sparsely branched distally, pubescent throughout.

(from short rhizomes) single, branched distally (among heads), puberulent throughout.

usually opposite (distal sometimes alternate);

sessile;

blades ± 3-nerved or pinnately nerved, elliptic to oblanceolate, 30–120 × 10–40 mm (lengths mostly 3–4 times widths), bases narrowly cuneate (sometimes oblique), margins subentire, serrate, or serrulate, apices rounded to acute, faces setulose (denser on midribs and veinlets) to glabrate, usually gland-dotted.

usually opposite (distal sometimes alternate);

sessile;

blades pinnately nerved, narrowly elliptic, 40–100+ × 5–20 mm, bases cuneate (not perfoliate), margins serrate, apices acute to acuminate, faces puberulent, gland-dotted.

(4–)5;

corollas 4–4.5 mm.

9–14;

corollas 3–3.5 mm.

9–15 in 2–4 series, linear, 1.5–9 × 0.6–1 mm, apices acuminate to attenuate, sometimes mucronate, abaxial faces pubescent throughout, gland-dotted.

10–12 in 2–3 series, elliptic to oblong, 1.5–4 × 0.8–1 mm, apices broadly acute to acute, abaxial faces puberulent, gland-dotted.

in corymbiform arrays.

in corymbiform arrays.

2.5–3.5 mm;

pappi of 40–50 bristles 3.5–4.5 mm.

2–3 mm;

pappi of 20–30 bristles 3–3.5 mm.

= 20.