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 1/2–3/4 of each stem;

blades of undivided cauline leaves obovate or oblanceolate to spatulate, margins denticulate (piloso-ciliate), midribs usually piloso-setose.

10–12+ mm.

12–15+ mm.

15–20+;

corollas bluish or yellowish, usually deliquescent.

20–50+;

corollas usually yellow, sometimes bluish, usually 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 to blackish (usually mottled), ± flattened, elliptic, 4.5–5+ mm, beaks ± filiform, 2.5–4.5 mm, faces 1(–3)-nerved;

pappi white, 5–7(–11) mm.

= 34.

= 34.