Flora of North America species comparison

erect, usually reddish, sometimes stramineous, glabrous.

erect, stramineous to red-brown, stipitate-glandular (at least distally).

blades spatulate or oblanceolate to oblong or lanceolate, 15–70 mm, lengths 3–5(–7) times widths, bases ± cuneate or clasping, margins usually dentate or serrate (teeth apiculate), sometimes entire, apices rounded or obtuse to acute, faces glabrous (or, near margins, scabridulous) and sparsely to densely gland-dotted.

blades spatulate or oblong to oblanceolate or lanceolate, 25–60(–90) mm, lengths 3–5(–7) times widths, bases cuneate to ± clasping, margins entire or serrate to denticulate (teeth apiculate), apices obtuse to acute, faces usually finely stipitate-glandular, sometimes glabrous (or scabridulous near margins) and gland-dotted.

broadly urceolate to globose, 8–11 × 10–20 mm.

broadly urceolate to globose, 8–15 × 12–20(–30) mm.

18–27;

laminae 10–15 mm.

20–30+;

laminae 8–12 mm.

in 5–6 series, linear or lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, apices looped to hooked (outer) or recurved to nearly straight, terete to subulate or acuminate, slightly to moderately resinous.

in 6–9 series, spreading to appressed, linear or linear-attenuate to lance-linear, apices mostly looped to hooked (inner sometimes recurved to straight), ± terete, moderately to strongly resinous.

usually in open, corymbiform to paniculiform arrays, seldom borne singly.

in open to crowded, corymbiform to paniculiform arrays.

whitish or stramineous, 2.5–5 mm, apices smooth or weakly coronate, faces smooth or finely furrowed;

pappi of 4–8 straight, barbellate to barbellulate bristles or setiform awns 2.5–5.5 mm, shorter than disc corollas.

whitish to stramineous, 4–5.5 mm, apices ± coronate, faces striate or furrowed;

pappi of 2 straight to curled, usually smooth, sometimes barbellulate, subulate scales 2.5–4+ mm, shorter than disc corollas.

= 12.