Flora of North America species comparison

usually 1, rarely 2–3, clustered, irregularly arachnoid-tomentose to lanate-tomentose or glabrescent.

1 or 2–3, clustered, bases floccose-tomentose, leaf axils tomentose, glabrous elsewhere.

(and proximal cauline, relatively turgid) petiolate;

blades broadly ovate or lyrate (± pinnately lobed, lateral lobes 1–3 pairs, smaller than terminals), 10–30+ × 10–20+ mm, bases tapering to cuneate, ultimate margins subentire or crenate to coarsely dentate (abaxial faces tomentose).

(thick, fleshy) petiolate;

blades usually ovate, oblong, or spatulate, sometimes sublyrate, 20–50+ × 20–40+ mm, bases tapering (to winged petioles) or abruptly contracted to subcordate (petioles narrow), margins crenate, coarsely serrate, or subentire.

gradually reduced (sessile; bractlike, entire).

(often cyanic) gradually reduced (sessile, not clasping; lanceolate to linear, usually irregularly and shallowly lobed, rarely entire).

bracteate, irregularly tomentose.

conspicuously bracteate, glabrous.

8–13;

corolla laminae 8–10 mm.

10–12;

corolla laminae 8–14+ mm.

60–75+;

corolla tubes 2.5–4 mm, limbs 3.5–5 mm.

55–75+;

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

(8–)13 or 21, green, 7–10+ mm, densely tomentose proximally, glabrescent distally (tips hair-tufted).

21, deep red or green (tips reddish), 8–12+ mm, white-tomentose proximally.

inconspicuous.

conspicuous (tips of bractlets often purple).

3–6 in cymiform arrays.

1–2(–5+).

2–2.5 mm, glabrous;

pappi 5–7 mm.

1–1.25 mm, glabrous;

pappi 4–7 mm.

= 46.

= 160+.