Flora of North America species comparison

1 or multiple (crowded to subcespitose), floccose-tomentose or glabrescent.

1 or, usually, multiple, clustered, densely tomentose to glabrescent.

petiolate;

blades lanceolate to oblanceolate, 30–60+ × 10–30+ mm, bases tapering, margins shallowly, evenly pinnatifid to pinnatisect or wavy (adaxial faces floccose-tomentose or subglabrescent).

(soon withering), petiolate;

blades lyrate (lateral lobes 2–6+ pairs), ovate, obovate, or spatulate, 70–100+ × 20–30+ mm, bases tapering, ultimate margins irregularly and coarsely serrate-dentate.

gradually reduced (sessile; lanceolate to oblanceolate, pinnatisect to wavy).

gradually reduced (± petiolate, proximal and mid similar to basal, terminal lobes smaller than laterals; distal sessile, incised).

bracteate, densely to irregularly floccose.

bracteate, sparsely to densely lanate-tomentose.

6–8+;

corolla laminae 5–7 mm.

8 or 13;

corolla laminae 10–15 mm.

30–40+;

corolla tubes 2.5–3 mm, limbs, 2.5–3.5 mm.

35–50+;

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

13, green, 5–7 mm, floccose proximally to glabrescent distally.

13 or 21, green (tips sometimes yellow), 8–10+ mm, densely tomentose proximally, glabrescent distally.

0 or inconspicuous (bractlets red-tinged).

inconspicuous (bractlets tomentose).

6–25+ in open or compact, corymbiform arrays.

5–20+ in open or compact (rarely), cymiform arrays.

2.5–3 mm, glabrous;

pappi 4–5 mm.

1–1.5 mm, glabrous;

pappi 6–7 mm.

= 46.

= 46.