Flora of North America species comparison

erect, scabro-hispid to hirsute (sometimes glaucous).

(reddish or purplish) erect, hairy.

mostly cauline; opposite or alternate proximally, usually alternate distally;

petioles 2–8 cm (often ± winged);

blades (3-nerved from near bases) lanceolate to ovate, 10–23 × 7–15 cm, bases broadly to narrowly cuneate, margins entire or serrate (flat), abaxial faces puberulent or hirsutulous to tomentulose and gland-dotted (abaxial) or ± scabrous (adaxial).

cauline; all or mostly opposite;

petioles 0–3 cm;

blades (1- or 3-nerved) lanceolate to lance-ovate, 5–11 × 2–3.5 cm, bases cuneate, margins entire or serrate, abaxial faces hispid, gland-dotted.

1–15 cm.

2.5–30 cm.

hemispheric, (10–25 ×) 8–12 mm.

hemispheric, 13–20 mm diam.

10–20;

laminae 25–40 mm.

13–21;

laminae 15–25 mm (abaxial faces gland-dotted).

60+;

corollas 6–7 mm, lobes yellow;

anthers dark brown or black, appendages dark or yellowish.

50+;

corollas 5–6 mm, lobes reddish;

anthers reddish brown, appendages yellow or dull orange (style branches yellow).

(often dark green, drying nearly black) 22–35 (bases appressed, apices ± spreading, sometimes reflexed in fruit), lanceolate, 8.5–15 × 2–4 mm (subequal), (margins ciliate) apices acuminate, abaxial faces hispidulous or puberulent, gland-dotted.

20–25, lanceolate, 4–8 × 1.5–3 mm, (margins ciliate) apices acute, abaxial faces hispidulous, gland-dotted.

3–15.

1–5.

5–7 mm, glabrous or distally hairy;

pappi of 2 aristate scales 1.9–3 mm plus 0–1 deltate scales 0.5–0.8 mm.

3–4 mm, glabrate;

pappi of 2 aristate scales 2.5–3 mm.

8–9 mm, 3-toothed (apices hairy).

8–9 mm, subentire to weakly 3-toothed (apices acute, ciliate, gland-dotted).

= 102.

= 34.