Flora of North America species comparison

on proximal 1/2–3/4 of each stem;

blades of undivided cauline leaves oblong, obovate, or lanceolate to spatulate or lance-linear, margins entire or denticulate, midribs sometimes sparsely pilose.

on proximal 2/3–3/4 of each stem;

blades of undivided cauline leaves ovate to lanceolate, margins entire or denticulate, midribs sometimes sparsely piloso-setose.

10–12+ mm.

7–12+ mm.

15–20+;

corollas bluish or yellowish, usually deliquescent.

(15–)20–30(–50+);

corollas bluish or whitish, sometimes yellowish, seldom deliquescent.

usually reflexed in fruit.

usually reflexed in fruit.

in ± corymbiform to paniculiform arrays.

in paniculiform arrays.

bodies brown (often mottled), ± flattened, elliptic, 5–6 mm, beaks ± filiform, 1–3 mm, faces 1(–3)-nerved;

pappi white, 5–6 mm.

bodies brown (often mottled), ± compressed-ellipsoid, 4–5+ mm, beaks ± stout, 0.1–0.5+ mm, faces (4–)5–6-nerved;

pappi ± fuscous, 4–6+ mm.

= 34.

= 34.