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 oblanceolate, oblong, or spatulate, 2–6 cm × 6–24 mm, (bases of distal ± clasping) margins usually entire or obscurely toothed, rarely lobed, faces scabrellous and/or ± villous (hairs scattered, jointed).

(5–)20–35+ cm.

5–10(–15) cm.

(6–)12–18+;

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

8–12;

corollas mostly bright red to dark purple, rarely yellow, 15–25 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.

30–60+;

corollas yellow with purple tips, tubes 1.5 mm, throats narrowly cylindric, 4.5 mm, lobes ovate-deltate, 0.5–1 mm, jointed hairs more than 0.3 mm.

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

22–32, lanceolate to lance-attenuate, 7–15 mm, ciliate with jointed hairs.

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).

dimorphic: the peripheral usually ± obcompressed-clavate, 2–4+ mm, glabrous or nearly so, with pappi of (6–)8+, muticous scales 0.1–0.3+ mm; the inner obpyramidal, 2–3 mm, hairs 1–3 mm, inserted at bases and on angles, with pappi of 8–12 lanceolate, aristate scales 5–6 mm (scarious bases 2.5–3 × 0.5–1 mm).

setae 2–6 mm.

setae 2.5–3 mm.

= 34, 68.

= 34.