Flora of North America species comparison

erect, green or light purple, simple, (stout), glabrous and glaucous proximally, setose or hispid distally.

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

proximal usually present at flowering;

petioles broadly winged, (1–15 cm);

blades broadly oblanceolate to spatulate, 4–25 × 1–8 cm, coriaceous, bases attenuate, clasping, margins entire or weakly denticulate, apices obtuse or rounded, faces glabrous;

mid cauline sessile, clasping;

distal sessile and 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.

campanulate, 11–12 × 4–7 mm.

cylindro-campanulate, 10–13 × 3–4 mm.

9–29;

corollas usually pinkish, sometimes white or lavender, 7–13 mm.

8–10;

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

7–14, green to purple, lanceolate to linear, 10–12 mm, margins scarious, sparsely to densely setose.

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

of 8, dark green to purple, narrowly triangular-subulate bractlets 2–4 mm, coarsely setose.

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

(ascending) in (elongate) narrowly racemiform or paniculiform arrays.

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

golden brown, sub-cylindric, subterete, 5–6 mm, indistinctly 8–12-ribbed;

pappi pale yellow, 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.

= 16.