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, blades broadly ovate to lanceolate (rarely lobed), herbaceous, bases attenuate to cuneate or broadly rounded, ultimate margins entire or serrate, apices acute, faces sparsely to densely hairy (mostly adaxially), rarely glabrous;

basal petiolate, 12–30 × 3–9 cm;

cauline petiolate or sessile, 5–25 × 2–10 cm.

columnar;

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

ovoid to columnar;

paleae (proximally light brown, distally green, becoming maroon with age) 5–7 mm, apices acute to acuminate, abaxial tips densely hairy.

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300–500;

corollas brown-purple, 4.2–5.8 mm;

style branches ca. 2 mm, apices acute.

200–500+;

corollas yellowish green proximally, blackish maroon distally, 4–6 mm;

style branches ca. 1.2 mm, apices acute to rounded.

to 6 cm (foliaceous, faces scabrous).

to 3 cm (margins mostly ciliate, hairy, especially abaxially).

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

in ± corymbiform arrays.

3.5–5 mm;

pappi of 4 scales, to 1 mm.

3.5–5 mm;

pappi coroniform, to 1.2 mm.

30–80 × 18–30 mm.

17–45 × 12–20 mm.

= 36.