Flora of North America species comparison

erect, often mottled purple or nearly all purple (often with stout bases, 8–12 mm diam.), proximally glabrous, tomentulose distally.

1–5, erect, mostly green with mottled purple, slender, simple, glabrous.

proximal present at flowering;

petioles narrowly winged (to 18 cm);

blades usually ovate to triangular or cordate, 4–30 × 3–18 cm, thin to coriaceous, bases often hastate, margins usually coarsely dentate or serrate, sometimes deeply 3-lobed or parted, lobes acute, faces glabrous adaxially, pale to whitish and sometimes hirsute abaxially;

distal reduced.

proximal present at flowering; petiolate (petioles winged);

blades oblong to linear, 7–18 × 0.5–6 cm, coriaceous, bases attenuate, margins deeply pinnately lobed or divided, lobes narrow and at right angles, apices acute to acuminate, faces glabrous or slightly glabrate along veins; distally sessile and much reduced.

cylindric to campanulate, 13–15 × 3–5 mm.

cylindro-campanulate, 10–13 × 3–4 mm.

7–9(–13);

corollas whitish to pale pink, lavender or red, 9–15 mm.

8–10;

corollas usually pinkish, sometimes lavender or white, 11–17 mm.

(6–)8(–9), ± purplish or maroon, lanceolate, 10–13 mm, margins scarious, minutely ciliate, apices acute, faces glabrous.

7–8, pink or purple, linear to elliptic, 8–13 mm, glabrous.

of 5–7, triangular to lanceolate bractlets 1–3 mm, glabrous.

of 6–8, green to purple, triangular to subulate bractlets 1–4 mm.

(3–8, in clusters) in paniculiform arrays (densest near apices).

(1–2 in pedunculate lateral clusters) in spiciform or racemiform arrays.

brown or tan, elliptical to linear, 3.5–6 mm;

pappi usually reddish brown, sometimes rusty, rarely yellowish, 6–7 mm.

dark green, elliptic to linear, subterete to angular, 3.5–5.5 mm, indistinctly 8–10-ribbed;

pappi pale yellow to tan, 5 mm.

= 32.