Flora of North America species comparison

2–10, erect or ascending, pale or reddish, often stout, usually glabrous, often tomentose distally.

2–5, erect or ascending, red-tinged, glabrous or sparsely tomentose distally, eglandular.

basal petiolate, blades oblanceolate to spatulate or narrowly elliptic, 80–450 × 5–60 mm (firm, leathery, succulent), margins entire or undulate, eciliate, apices acute or obtuse, faces usually glabrous, rarely puberulent, eglandular;

cauline sessile, blades lanceolate, 10–120 × 5–30 mm, bases clasping.

basal petiolate, blades oblanceolate to spatulate, 70–210 × 10–35 mm, margins entire or undulate, ciliate;

cauline sessile, linear-lanceolate, 30–80 × 2–10 mm, bases clasping;

faces glabrous, eglandular.

1–5 cm.

0–4 cm.

hemispheric, 10–20 × 15–60 mm.

hemispheric, 11–17 × 20–30 mm.

30–90;

corollas (bright yellow) 9–30 mm.

18–45;

corollas 10–20 mm.

100+;

corollas 7–13 mm.

80–100;

corollas 6.5–10 mm.

in 2–3 series (loose), usually green, sometimes yellowish, oblong to spatulate, 9–15 mm, subequal, margins pale, entire or denticulate, eciliate, apices ± erect, obtuse, broad.

in 2–3 series, oblanceolate to oblong, 7–13 mm, unequal, bases chartaceous, margins entire, densely ciliate, apices green, acuminate, faces glabrous.

usually borne singly, terminal, sometimes 2–6 (not subtended by leaflike bracts).

usually 2–4 in racemiform arrays, sometimes borne singly.

narrowly oblong, compressed, 5–8 mm, 4-angled, faces striate, glabrous;

pappi tawny, 6–12 mm.

oblong-fusiform, 5–7 mm, 4-angled, faces striate, glabrous;

pappi tawny, 6–9 mm.

= 12.