Flora of North America species comparison

(branches ascending) moderately 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 linear to spatulate (not lobed), bases attenuate to cuneate, margins entire or remotely serrulate, apices acute to rounded, faces hirsute;

basal petiolate, 5–20 × 0.5–2 cm;

cauline petiolate (proximal) or sessile (distal), 2–15 × 0.4–1.5 cm.

columnar;

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

mostly hemispheric;

paleae 5–6.5 mm, apices rounded to acute, abaxial tips glabrous.

0.

9–15;

laminae elliptic to oblanceolate, 10–25 × 5–8 mm, abaxially sparsely strigose.

300–500;

corollas brown-purple, 4.2–5.8 mm;

style branches ca. 2 mm, apices acute.

150–250+;

corollas proximally greenish yellow, distally purple brown, 4–5.5 mm;

style branches ca. 1.5 mm, apices obtuse.

to 6 cm (foliaceous, faces scabrous).

to 1.5 cm (faces hairy, more densely abaxially).

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

borne singly or (2–12) in loose, corymbiform arrays.

3.5–5 mm;

pappi of 4 scales, to 1 mm.

1.5–2.7 mm;

pappi coroniform, ca. 0.1 mm.

30–80 × 18–30 mm.

8–15 × 10–17 mm.

= 38.