Flora of North America species comparison

1, densely lanate-tomentose proximally, floccose-tomentose to glabrescent distally.

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

(and proximal cauline) petiolate;

blades lanceolate to narrowly ovate or elliptic, 40–120+ × 20–50+ mm, bases tapering, sometimes oblique, margins subentire, crenate, or serrate-dentate.

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, weakly clasping; dentate to pinnately lobed).

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

bracteate, sparsely to densely tomentose.

bracteate, densely to irregularly floccose.

10 or 13;

corolla laminae 6–8+ mm.

6–8+;

corolla laminae 5–7 mm.

50–60+;

corolla tubes 3.5–4 mm, limbs 3–3.5 mm.

30–40+;

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

13 or 21, light green, 5–8 mm, usually glabrous (sometimes hairy proximally).

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

inconspicuous.

0 or inconspicuous (bractlets red-tinged).

10–30+ in open, corymbiform arrays (more in robust individuals).

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

1–1.5 mm, hispid;

pappi 5–7 mm.

2.5–3 mm, glabrous;

pappi 4–5 mm.

= 46.

= 46.