Flora of North America species comparison

erect, green to reddish or purple mottled, proximally glabrous, distally sparsely tomentulose.

proximal often withered by flowering; petiolate (petioles 1–10 cm, often with pair of lobes);

blades deltate to ovate or elliptic, 5–20 × 4–10 cm, coriaceous, margins usually deeply, pinnately 3–5-lobed, lobes and sinuses large and ± rounded, sometimes deeply cleft to base or palmately divided, apices acute or obtuse, ultimate margins entire or dentate, faces glabrous or finely tomentose on veins;

cauline sessile or petiolate;

distal reduced in size and lobing, often entire.

cylindric (often attenuate basally to bracteate peduncles), 12–15 × 4–5 mm.

(8–)10–14(–19);

corollas usually yellow to pale yellow, 9–15 mm.

(7–)8–(10), green or often purple, narrowly lanceolate to elliptic, 10–13 mm, sparsely hispid to appressed, coarsely setose, often reduced to single coarse, appressed seta (setae green or tan).

of 8–10, green to purple, triangular to subulate bractlets 1–4 mm, often tomentulose to setose.

(6–12 in nodding clusters) in broad, paniculiform to corymbiform arrays (often widely branching and subdichotomous, at least some branches elongate).

golden brown to light tan, subcylindric, subterete or angled, 5–8 mm, indistinctly 8–10-ribbed;

pappi tan, 7–8 mm.

= 16.