Flora of North America species comparison

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

1 or 3–5, loosely clustered, glabrous or bases and leaf axils tomentose.

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 (petioles sometimes winged);

blades elliptic-ovate or suborbiculate to spatulate, 15–25 × 5–20 mm, bases tapering, margins entire or dentate (at apices).

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

abruptly reduced (becoming sessile, bractlike).

bracteate, densely to irregularly floccose.

ebracteate, glabrous.

6–8+;

corolla laminae 5–7 mm.

(0) or 8–13;

corolla laminae 7–9 mm.

30–40+;

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

35–50+;

corolla tubes 2–3 mm, limbs 2.5–3.5 mm.

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

13, cyanic, 8–9 mm, glabrous or loosely tomentose proximally.

0 or inconspicuous (bractlets red-tinged).

inconspicuous.

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

1–2(–4).

2.5–3 mm, glabrous;

pappi 4–5 mm.

1–2 mm, glabrous;

pappi 3–4.5 mm.

= 46.