Flora of North America species comparison

1 or multiple, loosely clustered, usually glabrous, sometimes tomentose proximally and in leaf axils.

1 (per rosette, rosettes clustered), lanate-tomentose to glabrescent.

(and proximal cauline) petiolate;

blades orbiculate, ovate, or obovate, 40–100+ × 20–80+ mm, bases tapering, rounded, or abruptly contracted, margins crenate, dentate, or serrate.

(and proximal cauline) petiolate;

blades obovate to broadly spatulate, 5–20+ × 10–15 mm, bases tapering, margins subentire or dentate apically (faces lanate-tomentose to glabrescent).

gradually reduced (sessile, clasping; pinnatisect or sublyrate).

gradually reduced (sessile; spatulate to linear, densely tomentose).

bracteate, glabrous or proximally tomentose.

bracteate, densely lanate-tomentose.

8–13(–21);

corolla laminae 7–10 mm.

8 or 13;

corolla laminae 8–10 mm.

40–50+;

corolla tubes 2–3 mm, limbs 2–3 mm.

35–50+;

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

13 or 21, green (tips sometimes reddish), 3–6 mm, glabrous or floccose-tomentose proximally.

13 or 21, green, 6–8 mm, lanate-tomentose, glabrate distally.

conspicuous.

0.

6–15+ in open or congested, corymbiform arrays.

2–8+ in compact cymiform arrays.

1–1.5 mm, glabrous or hirsute on ribs;

pappi 3–6 mm.

0.75–1 mm, glabrous or hispid on ribs;

pappi 3–4 mm.

= 44, 88, 90.

= 46.