Flora of North America species comparison

1, glabrous or sparsely tomentose.

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

(and proximal cauline) petiolate;

blades ovate, oblanceolate, or spatulate, 10–30 × 5–20 mm, bases tapering, sometimes obtuse, margins entire, subentire, or 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).

abruptly reduced (sessile, clasping; bractlike, entire).

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

bracteate (bractlets red-tinged), densely lanate-tomentose.

bracteate, densely to irregularly floccose.

(8–)13;

corolla laminae 6–10+ mm.

6–8+;

corolla laminae 5–7 mm.

35–50+;

corolla tubes 2.5–3.5 mm, limbs 3–4 mm.

30–40+;

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

(13–)21, green (tips red or dark red), densely tomentose proximally.

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

conspicuous (bractlets narrow, red-tinged).

0 or inconspicuous (bractlets red-tinged).

1–4+ in corymbiform arrays.

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

1.5–2 mm, glabrous;

pappi 5–6 mm.

2.5–3 mm, glabrous;

pappi 4–5 mm.

= 46.

= 46.