Flora of North America species comparison

spreading or erect.

1–5+, erect to spreading.

sessile;

blades ovate to lanceolate, 18–65 × 7–40 mm, abaxially lanate, adaxially usually glabrous and shiny, rarely sparsely tomentulose, then usually glabrescent.

cauline; alternate;

sessile or petiolate;

blades palmately (± parallel) nerved, ovate to lanceolate, margins entire or toothed, abaxial faces tomentose to lanate, adaxial faces tomentulose (gray-green) or glabrous (green).

10–50 mm.

± turbinate, 3–8 mm diam.

flat to convex, smooth or foveolate, epaleate.

11–23;

corollas pale yellow, 8–11 mm.

0.

11–26, bisexual, fertile;

corollas creamy to bright yellow, tubes longer than cylindric to funnelform throats, lobes 5, erect or spreading to recurved, deltate to lanceolate;

style branches stigmatic in 2 lines (joined near tips), apices rounded-truncate.

6–14, ovate to lanceolate, 5–9 mm.

persistent, 6–14 in 1–2 series, erect, distinct, ovate to lanceolate or linear, subequal, margins ± scarious.

0.

discoid, in corymbiform to subumbelliform arrays.

3–4 mm, 9-nerved, glabrous or strigose;

pappi of 80–120 bristles 8–10 mm.

terete to fusiform, 9- or 12–15-nerved, glabrous or strigose;

pappi persistent, of 80–125, white, barbellulate bristles.

= 30.

= 60.