Flora of North America species comparison

proximally glabrous or sparsely hairy (hairs spreading), distally strigose (hairs ascending).

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.

blades elliptic, lanceolate, or ovate (± conduplicate, not lobed), bases cuneate to rounded, margins entire or remotely serrate, apices acute, faces strigose, abaxially gland-dotted;

basal petiolate, 10–35 × 2–11 cm;

cauline petiolate (proximal) to nearly sessile (distal), 4–30 × 1.5–9 cm.

columnar;

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

hemispheric to ovoid;

paleae 5–6.5 mm, (apical margins glabrous) acuminate-cuspidate, awn-tipped, abaxial tips sparsely strigose.

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12–25;

laminae elliptic to obovate (reflexed), 20–50 × 5–10 mm, abaxially hairy and gland-dotted.

300–500;

corollas brown-purple, 4.2–5.8 mm;

style branches ca. 2 mm, apices acute.

200–800+;

corollas greenish yellow basally and in lobes, otherwise maroon, 3.5–5 mm;

style branches ca. 1.8 mm, apices obtuse.

to 6 cm (foliaceous, faces scabrous).

to 15 mm (strigose and gland-dotted).

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

mostly borne singly.

3.5–5 mm;

pappi of 4 scales, to 1 mm.

2–3 mm;

pappi coroniform, to 0.5 mm.

30–80 × 18–30 mm.

10–30 × 15–25 mm.