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, glabrous or glabrate.

(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).

(relatively thick and turgid) petiolate;

blades elliptic-ovate, ovate, or subreniform, 20–40+ × 10–30+ mm, bases tapering to subcordate, margins dentate to crenate (proximal cauline leaves petiolate; margins dissected to pinnatifid).

gradually reduced (sessile; bractlike, entire).

gradually reduced (sessile, subentire).

bracteate, irregularly tomentose.

bracteate (bractlets cyanic or reddish), glabrous or sparsely tomentose distally.

8–13;

corolla laminae 8–10 mm.

0 or 8–13;

corolla laminae (deep orange-yellow) 5–7 mm.

60–75+;

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

60–80+;

corolla tubes 1.5–2.5 mm, limbs 2.5–3.5 mm.

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

13 or 21, deep red or green (then tips deep red to purple), 7–10 mm, glabrous.

inconspicuous.

conspicuous (bractlets deep red or at least apices deep red to purple).

3–6 in cymiform arrays.

1–6+ in open to compact, subumbelliform arrays.

2–2.5 mm, glabrous;

pappi 5–7 mm.

1–1.5 mm, glabrous;

pappi 3–4.5 mm.

= 46.

= 46, 130+.