Flora of North America species comparison

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

1 (per rosette, rosettes clustered), densely lanate or canescent.

(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).

(and proximal cauline) petiolate;

blades ovate or elliptic to lanceolate, 25–50+ × 10–30 mm, bases tapering, margins entire or irregularly undulate to weakly dentate (abaxial faces persistently lanate, adaxial lanate to subglabrescent).

gradually reduced (sessile, subentire).

gradually reduced (petiolate or sessile, then weakly clasping; elliptic to lanceolate, entire or weakly dentate).

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

bracteate, usually densely lanate to floccose-tomentose (sometimes subglabrescent).

0 or 8–13;

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

8–10 (or 13);

corolla laminae 8–10+ mm.

60–80+;

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

35–50+;

corolla tubes 2.5–3.5 mm, limbs 3.5–4.5 mm.

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

13 or 21, green, 5–8+ mm, densely tomentose.

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

inconspicuous (bractlets tomentose).

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

8–15+ in corymbiform arrays.

1–1.5 mm, glabrous;

pappi 3–4.5 mm.

2.5–3.5+ mm, glabrous;

pappi 4.5–7 mm.

= 46, 130+.

= 46, 92.