Flora of North America species comparison

1 or 2–4, clustered (proximally deeply purple-tinged, distally lightly tinged), glabrous or tomentose at bases and in leaf axils.

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

(and proximal cauline) petiolate;

blades obovate or lyrate (pinnately lobed, lateral lobes 2–6+ pairs, their bases petioluliform, terminal lobes larger than laterals, midribs narrowly winged), 60–160+ × 20–40+ mm, bases wide, ultimate margins sharply dentate, crenate-dentate, or irregularly incised.

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 or sessile; shallowly lobed, midribs ± winged, distals bractlike, dentate to incised).

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

ebracteate, glabrous.

bracteate, densely to irregularly floccose.

(8–)13;

corolla laminae 6–10+ mm.

6–8+;

corolla laminae 5–7 mm.

60–70+;

corolla tubes 2–3 mm, limbs 3.5–4.5 mm.

30–40+;

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

(13–)21, green (tips yellow), 5–7 mm, glabrous (tips sometimes hairy).

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

inconspicuous.

0 or inconspicuous (bractlets red-tinged).

15–40+ in open, cymiform arrays.

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

1.5–2 mm, glabrous or ± scabrellous;

pappi 5.5–6.5 mm.

2.5–3 mm, glabrous;

pappi 4–5 mm.

= 92.

= 46.