Flora of North America species comparison

usually 1, rarely 2–3, clustered, glabrous.

1 (per rosette, rosettes clustered), lanate-tomentose to glabrescent.

(and proximal cauline) petiolate (petioles narrow);

blades narrowly lanceolate or ovate to oblong-ovate, 20–60+ × 10–40+ mm, bases abruptly contracted to tapering, margins subentire to crenate-dentate.

(and proximal cauline) petiolate;

blades obovate to broadly spatulate, 5–20+ × 10–15 mm, bases tapering, margins subentire or dentate apically (faces lanate-tomentose to glabrescent).

gradually reduced (sessile, weakly clasping; lanceolate to oblong or sublyrate, often pinnately lobed).

gradually reduced (sessile; spatulate to linear, densely tomentose).

ebracteate or bracteate (bractlets inconspicuous), glabrous.

bracteate, densely lanate-tomentose.

8 or 13;

corolla laminae (deep yellow to orange-red) 6–8+ mm.

8 or 13;

corolla laminae 8–10 mm.

60–80+;

corolla tubes 4.5–5.5 mm, limbs 2.5–3.5 mm.

35–50+;

corolla tubes 2–2.5 mm, limbs 2–2.5 mm.

13 or 21, light green (or tips cyanic), 4–8 mm, glabrous.

13 or 21, green, 6–8 mm, lanate-tomentose, glabrate distally.

0 or inconspicuous.

0.

7–15+ in open, corymbiform arrays.

2–8+ in compact cymiform arrays.

1–1.5 mm, glabrous;

pappi 3–5 mm.

0.75–1 mm, glabrous or hispid on ribs;

pappi 3–4 mm.

= 46.

= 46.