Flora of North America species comparison

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

erect (leafy), ± hispid to glabrate.

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; 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.

1–15 cm.

10–40 cm.

hemispheric, (10–25 ×) 8–12 mm.

± hemispheric, (23–28 ×) 10–14 mm.

10–20;

laminae 25–40 mm.

21–31;

laminae 29–39 mm.

60+;

corollas 6–7 mm, lobes yellow;

anthers dark brown or black, appendages dark or yellowish.

150+;

corollas 6–6.5 mm, lobes reddish;

anthers dark, appendages purplish (style branches reddish).

(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.

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

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.

4–5 mm, strigillose to glabrate;

pappi of 2 aristate scales 2.8–3.2 mm.

8–9 mm, 3-toothed (apices hairy).

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

= 102.

= 34.