Flora of North America species comparison

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

usually 1, rarely 2–3, loosely clustered, glabrous.

(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 ovate, obovate, or elliptic, 20–40+ × 10–30+ mm, bases tapering to contracted, margins subentire to crenate-dentate.

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

abruptly reduced (sessile, often weakly clasping, dentate to subentire; distals sessile, lanceolate, weakly clasping, entire or dentate).

bracteate, glabrous.

sparsely bracteate or ebracteate, glabrous.

8 or 13;

corolla laminae 3–7 mm.

13;

corolla laminae 7–12+ mm.

30–45(–100+);

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

40–55+;

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

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

(13–)21, green (tips sometimes cyanic), 5–8+ mm, glabrous.

inconspicuous or 0.

(bractlets frequently cyanic).

4–25+ in corymbiform arrays.

1(–5; sometimes subtended by 2 relatively large bractlets).

1–1.5 mm, hirtellous on ribs;

pappi 3–5 mm.

1.5–2.5 mm, glabrous;

pappi 4–6 mm.

= 46.

= 46, 90.