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.

greenish blue (± glaucous), blades elliptic to ovate, usually pinnatifid to pinnately lobed (lobes mostly opposite, ovate to elliptic), ± leathery, bases attenuate to cuneate, ultimate margins entire or coarsely dentate, apices acute, faces usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely hairy (at least abaxially on veins);

basal petiolate, 17–60 × 10–25 cm;

cauline petiolate or sessile, 8–30 × 5–20 cm (blades among heads not lobed).

columnar;

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

ovoid to conic;

paleae (proximally transparent to light brown, distally greenish) 5–8 mm, apices acute to ± rounded, abaxial tips hairy.

0.

0.

300–500;

corollas brown-purple, 4.2–5.8 mm;

style branches ca. 2 mm, apices acute.

200–500+;

corollas maroon proximally, greenish distally, 4–5 mm;

style branches ca. 1.5 mm, apices acute to rounded.

to 6 cm (foliaceous, faces scabrous).

to 4 cm (margins sometimes ciliate, apices attenuate).

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

borne singly or in ± corymbiform arrays.

3.5–5 mm;

pappi of 4 scales, to 1 mm.

5.2–7 mm;

pappi coroniform, to 1.8 mm.

30–80 × 18–30 mm.

20–60 × 12–30 mm.

= 36.