Flora of North America species comparison

blades ovate or rounded-deltate to elliptic, 30–80(–120+) × 10–20(–40+) mm, usually ± pinnately or sub-bipinnately lobed, ultimate margins entire, faces strigillose, usually also with erect hairs 1–2 mm and gland-dotted.

blades ovate to lanceolate, 30–350+ × 20–120+ mm, margins usually crenate to serrate, sometimes coarsely toothed or somewhat lobed (then mostly toward bases), faces hispid to hirtellous or ± scabrous, gland-dotted.

2–8(–12+) mm.

1–8(–12+) mm.

5;

corolla laminae 0 or ± coroniform, 0.1–0.5 mm.

5(–6);

corolla laminae ovate to oblong or orbiculate, 1–2+ mm.

20–30+.

15–35+.

outer 5 lance-ovate to elliptic, 2.5–3+ mm, inner 5 ± orbiculate, 3–3.5 mm.

outer 5(–6) lanceolate to broadly ovate, 3–5 mm, inner 5(–6) ± orbiculate, 4–6 mm.

disciform or obscurely radiate, borne in open, ± paniculiform arrays.

radiate, borne in corymbiform to paniculiform arrays.

± obovoid, 2–3 mm; pappus-like enations 2, ± erect, deltate to ovate, 0.5–1 mm (sometimes a third, subulate spur near apex adaxially).

± obovoid, 3–4+ mm; pappus-like enations 0 or 2(–4), erect to spreading, ± subulate or threadlike, fragile, 0.3–0.6+ mm.

= 36, 68, 72.

= 72.