Flora of North America species comparison

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

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

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, clasping; often auriculate, pinnately dissected to pinnately lobed).

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

bracteate, glabrous.

bracteate, densely to irregularly floccose.

8 or 13;

corolla laminae 3–7 mm.

6–8+;

corolla laminae 5–7 mm.

30–45(–100+);

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

30–40+;

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

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

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

inconspicuous or 0.

0 or inconspicuous (bractlets red-tinged).

4–25+ in corymbiform arrays.

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

1–1.5 mm, hirtellous on ribs;

pappi 3–5 mm.

2.5–3 mm, glabrous;

pappi 4–5 mm.

= 46.

= 46.