Flora of North America species comparison

1 or 2–3, clustered, floccose-tomentose proximally and in leaf axils, otherwise sparsely tomentose or glabrescent.

1 or multiple (crowded to subcespitose), floccose-tomentose or glabrescent.

(and proximal cauline) petiolate;

blades narrowly elliptic to elliptic-ovate or oblanceolate to suborbiculate or sublyrate, 20–70+ × 10–30+ mm, bases tapering to rounded or abruptly contracted, margins subentire to crenate, serrate-dentate, or pinnately lobed (abaxial faces floccose-tomentose, especially along midribs, ± glabrescent).

petiolate;

blades lanceolate to oblanceolate, 30–60+ × 10–30+ mm, bases tapering, margins shallowly, evenly pinnatifid to pinnatisect or wavy (adaxial faces floccose-tomentose or subglabrescent).

gradually reduced (petiolate, sublyrate or pinnatisect, abaxial faces sparsely hairy; distals sessile, subentire to irregularly dissected).

gradually reduced (sessile; lanceolate to oblanceolate, pinnatisect to wavy).

conspicuously bracteate, sparsely to densely tomentose.

bracteate, densely to irregularly floccose.

8–10;

corolla laminae 9–10 mm.

6–8+;

corolla laminae 5–7 mm.

60–70+;

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

30–40+;

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

13 or 21, green (tips sometimes cyanic), 5–6+ mm, densely tomentose proximally, glabrescent distally.

13, green, 5–7 mm, floccose proximally to glabrescent distally.

inconspicuous.

0 or inconspicuous (bractlets red-tinged).

6–20+ in open or congested, corymbiform arrays.

6–25+ in open or compact, corymbiform arrays.

1.5–2.5 mm, usually hirtellous, sometimes glabrous;

pappi 6.5–7.5 mm.

2.5–3 mm, glabrous;

pappi 4–5 mm.

= 46, 92.

= 46.