Flora of North America species comparison

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

1 or 3–4+, clustered, sparsely 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, relatively thick and turgid) petiolate;

blades narrowly elliptic or lanceolate to oblanceolate, 40–70+ × 5–20+ mm, bases tapering, margins entire or subentire to weakly and irregularly dentate (especially at apices).

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

gradually reduced (distal sessile, bractlike).

bracteate, glabrous.

bracteate (bractlets usually red-tipped), sparsely tomentose to glabrate.

8 or 13;

corolla laminae 3–7 mm.

5 or 8;

corolla laminae 12–16 mm.

30–45(–100+);

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

50–60+;

corolla tubes 3.5–4.5 mm, limbs 4.5–5.5 mm.

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

13 or 21, dark green proximally, becoming light green distally (tips red), 7–11+ mm, floccose-tomentose proximally.

inconspicuous or 0.

conspicuous (bractlets red-tipped).

4–25+ in corymbiform arrays.

5–12+ in open, cymiform arrays.

1–1.5 mm, hirtellous on ribs;

pappi 3–5 mm.

2.5–3.5 mm, glabrous;

pappi 7–8 mm.

= 46.

= 92.