Flora of North America species comparison

1–5, ascending or decumbent, pale and often red-tinged, sparsely villous, sometimes tomentose.

1–4, erect or ascending, reddish, sometimes sparsely leafy, sparsely to densely villous, tomentose, or woolly, usually stipitate-glandular distally.

(persistent, thick, ± fleshy);

basal petiolate, blades lanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate, 50–140 × 9–16 mm, margins usually entire, sometimes slightly undulate, sometimes denticulate, sparsely ciliate, apices acute to obtuse, faces usually glabrous, sometimes puberulent or villous, eglandular;

cauline sessile, lanceolate to ovate, 20–40 × 5–10 mm, bases clasping, auriculate.

basal petiolate, blades lanceolate to oblanceolate or elliptic, 40–200 × 8–45 mm, margins usually coarsely, sharply serrate, sometimes entire, frequently stipitate-glandular, sometimes ciliate, apices acute, faces villous to tomentose, sometimes stipitate-glandular;

cauline petiolate, lanceolate, 15–75 × 3–20 mm, becoming sessile and reduced distally, bases clasping.

0.5–1 cm.

1–4 cm.

broadly campanulate, 8–15 × 20–35 mm.

hemispheric to campanulate, 7–12 × 8–20 mm.

21–55;

corollas 10–18 mm.

10–34;

corollas 6–15 mm.

100+;

corollas 6–8 mm.

30–60;

corollas 5–7 mm.

in 3–4 series, green with white margins, sometimes yellowish, lanceolate to oblanceolate, 6–12 mm, unequal, margins entire, ciliate, apices obtuse to acute or acuminate, faces villous.

in 2–3 series, loose or appressed, green throughout or only distally (bases chartaceous), linear-lanceolate, unequal to subequal, apices acute, faces villous to tomentose, sometimes stipitate-glandular.

usually borne singly, terminal, sometimes 2–3 smaller proximally, not subtended by leaflike bracts.

usually 3–7 in loose, racemiform arrays, rarely borne singly (short- or long-pedunculate).

subfusiform, not compressed, 4–7 mm, 4-angled, faces striate, sericeous or glabrous;

pappi tawny, 6–8 mm.

subcylindric, 3–4.5 mm, 3–4-angled, faces striate, sericeous-strigose;

pappi whitish to tawny, 5–7 mm.