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 3–4+, clustered, sparsely tomentose to 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).

(and proximal cauline, relatively thick and turgid) petiolate;

blades narrowly elliptic or lanceolate to oblanceolate, 40–70+ × 5–20+ mm, bases tapering, margins entire or subentire to weakly and irregularly dentate (especially at apices).

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

gradually reduced (distal sessile, bractlike).

conspicuously bracteate, sparsely to densely tomentose.

bracteate (bractlets usually red-tipped), sparsely tomentose to glabrate.

8–10;

corolla laminae 9–10 mm.

5 or 8;

corolla laminae 12–16 mm.

60–70+;

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

50–60+;

corolla tubes 3.5–4.5 mm, limbs 4.5–5.5 mm.

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

13 or 21, dark green proximally, becoming light green distally (tips red), 7–11+ mm, floccose-tomentose proximally.

inconspicuous.

conspicuous (bractlets red-tipped).

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

5–12+ in open, cymiform arrays.

1.5–2.5 mm, usually hirtellous, sometimes glabrous;

pappi 6.5–7.5 mm.

2.5–3.5 mm, glabrous;

pappi 7–8 mm.

= 46, 92.

= 92.