Flora of North America species comparison

1 or 2–5, clustered, usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely floccose-tomentose proximally and in leaf axils.

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

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

blades spatulate to oblanceolate, or ovate to orbiculate, 20–40+ × 10–30+ mm, bases tapering to abruptly contracted or subcordate, margins entire, crenate, dentate, or weakly lobulate (faces usually glabrous, sometimes hairy).

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 to abruptly reduced (± petiolate or sessile; entire or subentire).

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

bracteate, glabrous or sparsely tomentose.

bracteate, densely to irregularly floccose.

8 or 13;

corolla laminae 5–10 mm.

6–8+;

corolla laminae 5–7 mm.

35–60+;

corolla tubes 2–4 mm, limbs 2.5–4 mm.

30–40+;

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

(8–)13 or 21, green (tips sometimes cyanic), 4–7+ mm, glabrous.

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

conspicuous.

0 or inconspicuous (bractlets red-tinged).

2–20+ in loose, corymbiform or subumbelliform arrays.

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

1–2.5 mm, glabrous;

pappi 3–6 mm.

2.5–3 mm, glabrous;

pappi 4–5 mm.

= 46, 92.

= 46.