Flora of North America species comparison

glabrous or moderately hirsute (branches spreading).

blades lanceolate to broadly ovate or elliptic (not lobed), herbaceous, bases attenuate to cordate, margins usually entire or serrate, sometimes lacerate, apices acute, faces glabrous or hirsute to strigose;

basal petiolate, 5–30 × 1–8 cm;

cauline petiolate, 2–25 × 0.5–7 cm, bases attenuate to cordate or auriculate.

bluish green (heavily glaucous), blades lanceolate to elliptic (not lobed), leathery, bases attenuate, margins entire or remotely serrulate, apices acute, faces glabrous;

basal petiolate, 20–50 × 4–10 cm;

cauline petiolate or sessile, 10–25 × 2–8 cm.

hemispheric to ovoid;

paleae 2.5–4 mm, (apical margins usually ciliate) apices obtuse to acute, abaxial tips usually glabrous.

conic to columnar;

paleae 4–6.5 mm, apices acute, often attenuate, abaxial tips hairy.

10–15;

laminae elliptic to oblanceolate, 15–25 × 3–6 mm, abaxially strigose.

7–15;

laminae elliptic to oblong, 25–40 × 8–14 mm, abaxially hairy.

50–500+;

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

style branches ca. 1.3 mm, apices rounded.

250–400+;

corollas yellowish green, 3–4 mm;

style branches ca. 1 mm, apices acute.

to 2 cm.

to 1.5 cm.

borne singly or (2–7) in corymbiform arrays.

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

2.2–4 mm;

pappi coroniform, to 0.2 mm.

4–5.5 mm;

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

12–16 × 10–18 mm.

15–35 × 14–22 mm.

= 36.