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).

wholly basal or nearly so;

petiolar bases 0–3+ cm;

blades spatulate to oblanceolate, 3–10(–15) cm × 5–30(–60) mm, pinnatifid, toothed, or entire, glabrous or very sparsely villous with jointed hairs (obscurely, if at all, gland-dotted).

(5–)20–35+ cm.

15–75+ cm.

(6–)12–18+;

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

0 or 7–10;

corollas purplish to red, 10–15 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.

40–100+;

corollas pinkish to purplish, tubes 1.2–2 mm, throats urceolate, 3–4 mm, lobes narrowly triangular, 1–1.2 mm, jointed hairs 0.3+ mm (style-branch appendages glabrous or glabrate).

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

22–32, ovate to lance-attenuate, 6–8 mm, nearly glabrous or villous, or at least 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).

obpyramidal, 2 mm, hairs 2+ mm, inserted at bases and on angles;

pappi of 8–10 lanceolate, oblanceolate, or ovate, aristate scales 6–9 mm (scarious bases 4–5 × 1.4–2 mm).

setae 2–6 mm.

setae 0 or 0.1–0.5 mm.

= 34, 68.

= 38, ca. 72.