Flora of North America species comparison

1 or 2–6+, clustered (bases cyanic), glabrous or leaf axils sparsely tomentose.

1 (per rosette, rosettes clustered), lanate-tomentose to glabrescent.

(and proximal cauline) petiolate;

blades oblanceolate to spatulate (usually pinnately lobed, lateral lobes 1–6+ pairs, their bases petioluliform, terminal lobes usually larger than laterals, often reniform to ± orbiculate, midribs sometimes ± winged and/or toothed between the primary lobes), 40–120+ × 10–30+ mm, bases ± cuneate, ultimate margins subentire or irregularly crenate, dentate, or lobed.

(and proximal cauline) petiolate;

blades obovate to broadly spatulate, 5–20+ × 10–15 mm, bases tapering, margins subentire or dentate apically (faces lanate-tomentose to glabrescent).

gradually reduced (± petiolate or sessile, clasping; often auriculate, pinnately dissected to pinnately lobed).

gradually reduced (sessile; spatulate to linear, densely tomentose).

bracteate, glabrous.

bracteate, densely lanate-tomentose.

8 or 13;

corolla laminae 3–7 mm.

8 or 13;

corolla laminae 8–10 mm.

30–45(–100+);

corolla tubes 1.5–2.5 mm, limbs (1.5–)2.5–3.5 mm.

35–50+;

corolla tubes 2–2.5 mm, limbs 2–2.5 mm.

13 or 21, green (tips sometimes reddish), 3–7 mm, glabrous.

13 or 21, green, 6–8 mm, lanate-tomentose, glabrate distally.

inconspicuous or 0.

0.

4–25+ in corymbiform arrays.

2–8+ in compact cymiform arrays.

1–1.5 mm, hirtellous on ribs;

pappi 3–5 mm.

0.75–1 mm, glabrous or hispid on ribs;

pappi 3–4 mm.

= 46.

= 46.