Flora of North America species comparison

petioles 3–45 mm;

blades ovate, cordate, suborbiculate, or triangular, 17–60 × 10–50 mm, margins deeply toothed, lobed, cleft, or divided, lobes indented to irregularly dissected.

petioles 10–35 mm;

blades usually palmately 3-lobed or ± cruciform, 6–35 × 10–50 mm, lobes usually again ternately dissected, cleft, or parted.

1–70 mm.

10–80 mm.

campanulate to hemispheric.

campanulate to hemispheric.

usually 8–14, rarely rudimentary or 0;

corollas white, laminae oblong, 1–4(–6) × 1–3 mm.

12–18;

corollas yellow, laminae oblong, 4–10 × 2–4 mm.

40–100+;

corollas yellow, tubes 0.7–1.3 mm, throats tubular to tubular-funnelform, 0.8–1.3 mm, lobes 0.1–0.2 mm.

50–100;

corollas yellow, tubes 1.2–1.5 mm, throats tubular to broadly tubular, 2.2–3 mm, lobes 0.4–0.6 mm.

10–20, lanceolate or oblanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 4–6 × 1–2 mm.

20–30, oblanceolate or lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 6–7 × 1–2 mm, apices usually acute, sometimes short-attenuate.

borne singly or in corymbiform arrays, 4–10 × 4–10 mm.

borne singly or (2–3) in corymbiform arrays, 8–10 × 10–13 mm.

suboblong, oblanceolate, or subcuneate, (1.5–)2–3 mm, margins thin (not calloused), long- or short-ciliate;

pappi 0 or of 1 antrorsely to retrorsely barbellate bristles 1–3 mm plus crowns of hyaline, laciniate scales.

linear-elliptic to narrowly oblanceolate, (2–)3–4 mm, margins usually prominently calloused, sometimes thin, usually densely ciliate, sometimes short-hairy;

pappi 0 or of 1(–2) retrorsely or erectly barbellate (at least near tips) bristles 1–4 mm plus crowns of hyaline, laciniate scales.

= 65–72 or 100–116.

= 34.