Flora of North America species comparison

prostrate, procumbent, or decumbent, pilose.

erect, pilose-strigose.

sessile or petiolate;

petiole to 0.6 cm;

blade green, obovate to oblong, 1.5–7.5 × 0.5–2.5 cm, apex rounded or obtuse, pilose-sericeous.

petiole 0.5-2 cm;

blade green, oblong to ovate, 2–10 × 0.5–5 cm, apex acute, villous.

heads white tinged with pink or red, globose to short-cylindric, 9–13 mm diam.;

bractlets with denticulate crests along keel.

heads white, yellow, red, or purple, globose, 20–28 mm diam.;

bractlets crested along keel.

tube densely lanate;

perianth lobes white, narrowly oblong, 4–5 mm, apex attenuate.

tube densely lanate;

perianth lobes white to pink, lance-subulate, 4.4–5.2 mm, chartaceous, apex acuminate.

1.2 mm.

1.5 mm.

ovoid, 2.2 mm, apex acute.

oblong, 2 mm, apex acute.