Flora of North America species comparison

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.

basal and cauline or mostly cauline; alternate; petiolate or sessile;

blades mostly deltate, elliptic, lanceolate, linear, lyrate, oblanceolate, oblong, ovate, pandurate, or spatulate, often 1–2-pinnately lobed or -pinnatifid, ultimate margins entire, dentate, serrate, or toothed, faces glabrous or hairy, often gland-dotted.

hemispheric to rotate.

conic to columnar;

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

subhemispheric, ovoid, conic, or columnar (8–70+ mm high), paleate (paleae strongly conduplicate, each partly investing its subtended floret).

7–15;

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

0 or 3–25+, neuter;

corollas yellow or orange, brown-purple, maroon, or reddish, sometimes bicolor (orange, brown-purple, maroon, or reddish plus yellow, laminae often drooping or reflexed).

250–400+;

corollas yellowish green, 3–4 mm;

style branches ca. 1 mm, apices acute.

50–800+, bisexual, fertile;

corollas yellowish green to yellow or brown-purple, tubes shorter than or equaling funnelform or cylindric throats, lobes 5, deltate to triangular or obovate;

anther thecae dark;

stigmatic papillae in 2 lines.

to 1.5 cm.

persistent, (5–)15–30+ in 1–3 series (distinct, elliptic, lanceolate, linear, ovate, or triangular, usually subequal, sometimes unequal, outer longer, all herbaceous, distally or throughout, or inner scarious, at least outer soon reflexed).

0.

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

usually radiate, sometimes discoid, borne singly or in loose, ± corymbiform or paniculiform arrays.

4–5.5 mm;

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

subterete, or obpyramidal and 4-angled, or strongly compressed and linear-oblanceolate to oblong-oblique, glabrous or hairy;

pappi 0, or coroniform, or of 2–8+ scales or teeth.

15–35 × 14–22 mm.

= 36.