Flora of North America species comparison

1–4, erect or ascending to decumbent, reddish, leafy, villous.

moderately robust.

basal (in rosettes) petiolate, blades lanceolate to oblanceolate or spatulate, 50–200 × 5–40 mm, margins usually spinulose-serrate, sometimes entire, ciliate, apices acute, faces puberulent;

cauline sessile, blades linear-lanceolate, 40–100 × 5–15 mm, reduced distally, faces glabrous or villous-hispid, eglandular.

basal blades oblong to broadly spatulate, 100–200 × 10–50 mm.

1–5 cm.

turbinate to campanulate, 10–20 × 15–35 mm.

hemispheric, 15–20 × 20–35 mm.

0 or 1–30;

corollas yellow, 2–7 mm (not surpassing involucres).

25–50;

corollas 9–14 mm.

in 3–5 series (± loose), linear-lanceolate to oblong, 10–20 mm, unequal, bases tapering, margins spinulose-serrate, ciliate, apices occasionally recurved, acute, mucronate, faces puberulent.

(± overlapping) broadly oblong to obovate, apices acute, mucro erect.

usually borne singly, terminal, sometimes 2–3 in racemiform arrays, subtended by leaflike bracts.

subcylindric, 3–5.5 mm, 4-angled, faces striate or smooth, glabrous;

pappi tawny, 6–9 mm.

= 12.