Flora of North America species comparison

proximally usually piloso-hirsute (hairs 1–8+ mm) and stellate-pubescent, sometimes glabrous, distally usually piloso-hirsute (hairs 1–8+ mm) and stellate-pubescent, rarely stipitate-glandular as well, sometimes glabrous.

proximally piloso-hirsute (hairs 1.5–5+ mm), sometimes stellate-pubescent as well, distally stellate-pubescent, sometimes stipitate-glandular, rarely piloso-hirsute (hairs 1–2+ mm).

basal 0(–5+), cauline (3–)5–10+;

blades lanceolate, oblanceolate or narrowly oblong to elliptic, 50–100(–200) × 10–25(–35+) mm, lengths (3–)4–8+ times widths, bases cuneate, margins entire or denticulate, apices obtuse to acute, faces usually piloso-hirsute (hairs 1–5+ mm) and stellate-pubescent, rarely glabrous.

basal 0(–3), cauline 6–24+;

blades elliptic or oblanceolate to spatulate or lanceolate, (20–)35–80(–120+) × (10–)20–35(–50+) mm, lengths 2–6+ times widths, bases cuneate to rounded-truncate, margins usually entire, sometimes denticulate, apices rounded to obtuse, faces hirtellous to piloso-hirsute (hairs 0.5–1+ mm).

usually stellate-pubescent, sometimes piloso-hirsute and/or stipitate-glandular as well, rarely glabrous.

stellate-pubescent and stipitate-glandular (hairs 0.3–0.6+ mm).

campanulate, 8–10 mm.

campanulate, 7–9 mm.

20–45+;

corollas yellow, 10–12 mm.

(30–)40–60+;

corollas yellow, 9–11 mm.

12–21+, apices rounded to acute, abaxial faces piloso-hirsute, stellate-pubescent, and stipitate-glandular.

13–21+, apices ± acuminate, abaxial faces stellate-pubescent and stipitate-glandular, rarely, if ever, piloso-hirsute.

bractlets 5–13+.

bractlets 12–15+.

(3–)9–25+ in corymbiform to thyrsiform arrays.

(5–)10–25(–50+) in corymbiform to paniculiform arrays.

(red-brown or black) columnar, ca. 3 mm;

pappi of 32–40+, white or stramineous bristles in ± 2 series, 6–7 mm.

columnar, 2.5–3 mm;

pappi of 30–40+, stramineous bristles in ± 2 series, 6–7 mm.