Flora of North America species comparison

1, irregularly lanate or tomentose.

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

(and proximal cauline) petiolate;

blades orbiculate, ovate, oblanceolate, or rhombic, 20–50+ × 20–40+ mm, bases tapering, sometimes obtuse, margins coarsely dentate to crenate-dentate.

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).

gradually to abruptly reduced (petioles broad-winged, clasping, blades obovate, bases tapering, margins irregularly dentate; distal sessile, linear to lanceolate, entire).

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

bracteate, lanate or tomentose distally.

bracteate, densely to irregularly floccose.

8–10(–13);

corolla laminae (red-orange) 8–15+ mm.

6–8+;

corolla laminae 5–7 mm.

35–65+;

corolla tubes 4–5 mm, limbs 5–6 mm.

30–40+;

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

21, green (tips sometimes deep red), 8–10+ mm, densely tomentose proximally, sparsely tomentose distally.

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

conspicuous.

0 or inconspicuous (bractlets red-tinged).

1–3+.

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

1.5–2.5 mm, glabrous;

pappi 8–11 mm.

2.5–3 mm, glabrous;

pappi 4–5 mm.

= 40, 46, 92.

= 46.