Flora of North America species comparison

basal and cauline or cauline;

petiolar bases 5–15 cm;

blades oblanceolate to lanceolate, 5–15 cm × 5–30(–40) mm, margins raggedly pinnately lobed to toothed or entire, faces scabrellous and/or sparsely to densely villous (hairs jointed).

cauline;

petiolar bases 0–3+ cm;

blades narrowly elliptic, linear, obovate, or spatulate, 15–60 × 3–12(–22) mm, (bases of distal often clasping) margins remotely toothed or entire, faces usually closely scabrellous (hairs sometimes crisped).

(5–)20–35+ cm.

1–10(–20) cm.

(6–)12–18+;

corollas yellow or yellow/purple, rarely tubular and 5-lobed, usually distally laminate and 3-lobed, 15–35+ mm.

usually 6–12(–15), sometimes 0;

corollas pinkish to purple or yellow to cream or white, 13–25 mm.

60–120+;

corollas usually purple or purple-tipped, sometimes yellow, tubes 0.5–1.5 mm, throats cylindric to urceolate, 4.5–5.5 mm, lobes lance-ovate to triangular-attenuate, 1–2 mm, jointed hairs 0.3+ mm.

20–60(–100+);

corollas yellow or purple to purple-brown or bicolored, tubes 0.5–1 mm, throats stoutly cylindric to campanulate or urceolate, 3.5–5 mm, lobes attenuate-terete, 1.5–3 mm, jointed hairs to 0.3 mm.

24–40+ ovate to lance-attenuate, 10–15+ mm, ciliate with jointed hairs (also strigose and gland-dotted).

15–26, lance-ovate to lanceolate, 6–14+ mm, scabrellous.

clavate (outer) to obpyramidal (inner), 2.5–6 mm, hairs 1.5–2.5 mm, inserted at bases;

pappi of 8 ovate to lanceolate, aristate scales 5–6 mm (scarious bases 1.5–3 × 0.4–1.5 mm).

1.5–2 mm, hairs 1 mm, inserted at bases and on angles and faces;

pappi of 8–10 lanceolate, aristate scales 5–7 mm (scarious bases 2–3.5 × 0.6–1 mm).

setae 2–6 mm.

setae 0 or 0.1–0.5+ mm.

= 34, 68.

= 34, 68.