Flora of North America species comparison

green, ovate to elliptic or deltate, pinnate to pinnatifid or lyrate-pinnatifid, herbaceous, faces moderately to densely hairy (hairs 1-seriate);

basal petiolate, 25–70 × 8–45 cm, lobes 3–9, bases rounded to acute, apices acute;

cauline petiolate or sessile, 12–50 × 5–40 cm, bases attenuate to cuneate, ultimate margins dentate to lobed, apices acute.

bluish green (heavily glaucous), blades lanceolate to elliptic (not lobed), leathery, bases attenuate, margins entire or remotely serrulate, apices acute, faces glabrous;

basal petiolate, 20–50 × 4–10 cm;

cauline petiolate or sessile, 10–25 × 2–8 cm.

columnar;

paleae 5–7 mm, apices obtuse to acute, often apiculate, abaxial tips hairy.

conic to columnar;

paleae 4–6.5 mm, apices acute, often attenuate, abaxial tips hairy.

0.

7–15;

laminae elliptic to oblong, 25–40 × 8–14 mm, abaxially hairy.

300–500;

corollas brown-purple, 4.2–5.8 mm;

style branches ca. 2 mm, apices acute.

250–400+;

corollas yellowish green, 3–4 mm;

style branches ca. 1 mm, apices acute.

to 6 cm (foliaceous, faces scabrous).

to 1.5 cm.

borne singly or (2–10) in ± corymbiform arrays.

borne singly or (2–10) in ± corymbiform arrays.

3.5–5 mm;

pappi of 4 scales, to 1 mm.

4–5.5 mm;

pappi coroniform or of ± connate scales, to 1.2 mm.

30–80 × 18–30 mm.

15–35 × 14–22 mm.

= 36.