Flora of North America species comparison

1–7, procumbent to decumbent or ascending, red tinged, scapiform, glabrous or sparsely tomentose.

1–5, erect to curved-ascending, red-tinged, glabrous or sparsely tomentulose distally, eglandular.

basal petiolate, blades lanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate, 30–100 × 2–18 mm (leathery), margins usually coarsely dentate to laciniate, rarely entire, ciliate;

cauline sessile, blades linear-lanceolate (bractlike), 10–20 × 1–2 mm;

faces glabrous, eglandular.

basal petiolate, blades oblanceolate to elliptic, 100–300 × 10–50 mm, margins sharply serrate to undulate or entire, glabrous or villoso-ciliate on petioles and midribs;

cauline short-petiolate to sessile, moderately reduced distally, bases clasping, margins ciliate, apices obtuse to acute, faces sparsely villous, eglandular.

2–3 cm.

1–8 cm.

hemispheric, 7–13 × 13–20 mm.

hemispheric, 10–18 × 15–28 mm.

11–40;

corollas 7–16 mm.

15–23;

corollas 8–15 mm.

45–90;

corollas 5–7 mm.

35–50;

corollas 5–9 mm.

in 3–4 series, green, oblanceolate to narrowly oblong, 4–10 mm, unequal, margins white to purplish, entire, ciliate, apices green, broad, acute, faces glabrous.

in 2–3 series, loose, green with whitish base, linear-lanceolate, 9–13 mm, subequal, margins entire, ciliate, faces villous proximally.

usually borne singly, terminal, rarely 1–2 smaller proximally.

3–10 in narrow, elongate, racemiform arrays.

fusiform, slightly flattened, 5–7 mm, 3-angled, faces striate, glabrous;

pappi tawny, 5–7.5 mm.

narrowly oblong, 4-angled, 3–6 mm, faces striate, densely sericeous;

pappi tawny, 6.5–9.5 mm.

= 12.

= 36.