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.

green (glaucous), blades (3–5-nerved) narrowly lanceolate to linear (not lobed), leathery, bases attenuate, margins entire (sometimes ciliate), apices acute, faces glabrous;

basal petiolate, 10–40 × 0.5–1.5 cm;

cauline petiolate or sessile, 2–25 × 0.2–0.8 cm.

columnar;

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

ovoid or ellipsoid to hemispheric;

paleae 4–5 mm, glabrous or sparsely hairy, apices obtuse, acuminate.

0.

7–14;

laminae elliptic to oblanceolate, 12–30 × 5–10 mm, abaxially glabrous.

300–500;

corollas brown-purple, 4.2–5.8 mm;

style branches ca. 2 mm, apices acute.

100–200+;

corollas yellowish green proximally, maroon distally, 3–4 mm;

style branches ca. 1 mm, apices acute to blunt.

to 6 cm (foliaceous, faces scabrous).

to 1 cm.

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

(3–15) in ± corymbiform arrays.

3.5–5 mm;

pappi of 4 scales, to 1 mm.

3.4–4.2 mm;

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

30–80 × 18–30 mm.

9–15 × 7–17 mm.

= 36.