Flora of North America species comparison

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

1 or 3–4+, clustered, sparsely 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).

(and proximal cauline, relatively thick and turgid) petiolate;

blades narrowly elliptic or lanceolate to oblanceolate, 40–70+ × 5–20+ mm, bases tapering, margins entire or subentire to weakly and irregularly dentate (especially at apices).

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

gradually reduced (distal sessile, bractlike).

bracteate, densely to irregularly floccose.

bracteate (bractlets usually red-tipped), sparsely tomentose to glabrate.

6–8+;

corolla laminae 5–7 mm.

5 or 8;

corolla laminae 12–16 mm.

30–40+;

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

50–60+;

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

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

13 or 21, dark green proximally, becoming light green distally (tips red), 7–11+ mm, floccose-tomentose proximally.

0 or inconspicuous (bractlets red-tinged).

conspicuous (bractlets red-tipped).

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

5–12+ in open, cymiform arrays.

2.5–3 mm, glabrous;

pappi 4–5 mm.

2.5–3.5 mm, glabrous;

pappi 7–8 mm.

= 46.

= 92.