Flora of North America species comparison

hispid to hirsute (hairs spreading, 1+ mm).

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 (not lobed), bases attenuate to cuneate, margins entire or serrate, apices acute, faces hispid to hirsute;

basal petiolate, blades 8–30 × 0.5–7 cm;

cauline petiolate or sessile, blades (sometimes pandurate) 3–20 × 0.4–4 cm.

columnar;

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

hemispheric to ovoid;

paleae 4–6 mm, apices acute, often attenuate, abaxial tips hirsute to hispid.

0.

8–16;

laminae (usually uniformly yellow to yellow-orange or with a basal maroon splotch, sometimes mostly maroon) elliptic to oblong or oblanceolate, 15–45 × 5–10 mm, abaxially hispid to hirsute.

300–500;

corollas brown-purple, 4.2–5.8 mm;

style branches ca. 2 mm, apices acute.

250–500+;

corollas proximally yellowish green, distally brown-purple, 3–4.2 mm;

style branches ca. 1.5 mm, apices subulate.

to 6 cm (foliaceous, faces scabrous).

to 3 cm (faces hispid to hirsute).

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

borne singly or (2–5) in loose, corymbiform arrays.

3.5–5 mm;

pappi of 4 scales, to 1 mm.

1.5–2.7 mm;

pappi 0.

30–80 × 18–30 mm.

12–22 × 10–20 mm.