Flora of North America species comparison

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

1, densely lanate-tomentose proximally, floccose-tomentose to glabrescent distally.

(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) petiolate;

blades lanceolate to narrowly ovate or elliptic, 40–120+ × 20–50+ mm, bases tapering, sometimes oblique, margins subentire, crenate, or serrate-dentate.

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

gradually reduced (± petiolate or sessile, weakly clasping; dentate to pinnately lobed).

conspicuously bracteate, sparsely to densely tomentose.

bracteate, sparsely to densely tomentose.

8–10;

corolla laminae 9–10 mm.

10 or 13;

corolla laminae 6–8+ mm.

60–70+;

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

50–60+;

corolla tubes 3.5–4 mm, limbs 3–3.5 mm.

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

13 or 21, light green, 5–8 mm, usually glabrous (sometimes hairy proximally).

inconspicuous.

inconspicuous.

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

10–30+ in open, corymbiform arrays (more in robust individuals).

1.5–2.5 mm, usually hirtellous, sometimes glabrous;

pappi 6.5–7.5 mm.

1–1.5 mm, hispid;

pappi 5–7 mm.

= 46, 92.

= 46.