Flora of North America species comparison

1 or 2–3, clustered, glabrous or glabrate.

(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, subentire).

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

0 or 8–13;

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

60–80+;

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

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

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

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

1–1.5 mm, glabrous;

pappi 3–4.5 mm.

= 46, 130+.