Flora of North America species comparison

erect, usually hispid.

erect (leafy), ± hispid to glabrate.

mostly cauline; mostly alternate;

petioles 2–20 cm;

blades lance-ovate to ovate, 10–40 × 5–40 cm, bases cuneate to subcordate or cordate, margins serrate, abaxial faces usually ± hispid, sometimes gland-dotted.

cauline; alternate;

petioles 7–12 cm;

blades deltate-ovate, 7–14 × 7.5–12.3 cm, bases usually ± cordate, sometimes truncate, margins subentire to serrulate, abaxial faces strigose, not gland-dotted.

2–20 cm.

10–40 cm.

hemispheric or broader, 15–40(–200+) mm diam.

± hemispheric, (23–28 ×) 10–14 mm.

(13–)17–30(–100+);

laminae 25–50 mm.

21–31;

laminae 29–39 mm.

150+(–1000+);

corollas 5–8 mm (throats ± bulbous at bases), lobes usually reddish, sometimes yellow;

anthers brownish to black, appendages yellow or dark (style branches yellow).

150+;

corollas 6–6.5 mm, lobes reddish;

anthers dark, appendages purplish (style branches reddish).

20–30(–100+), ovate to lance-ovate, 13–25 × (3–)5–8 mm, (margins usually ciliate) apices abruptly narrowed, long-acuminate, abaxial faces usually hirsute to hispid, rarely glabrate or glabrous, usually gland-dotted.

25–35, lanceolate, 14–25 × 2.3–4 mm (surpassing discs), apices long-attenuate, abaxial faces strigillose to hispid.

1–9.

1–5.

(3–)4–5(–15) mm, glabrate;

pappi of 2 lanceolate scales 2–3.5 mm plus 0–4 obtuse scales 0.5–1 mm.

4–5 mm, strigillose to glabrate;

pappi of 2 aristate scales 2.8–3.2 mm.

9–11 mm, 3-toothed (middle teeth long-acuminate, glabrous or hispid).

9–10 mm, 3-toothed (middle teeth ± ciliate or bearded, hairs whitish, 0.3–0.6 mm).

= 34.

= 34.