Flora of North America species comparison

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

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.

basal blades lanceolate, 40–80(–160) × 10–30 mm, margins coarsely toothed to biserrate, faces villous to tomentose.

1–4 cm.

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

7–11 × 8–15 mm.

10–34;

corollas 6–15 mm.

30–60;

corollas 5–7 mm.

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.

loose, subequal, green throughout.

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

3–6.

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

pappi whitish to tawny, 5–7 mm.

= 12.