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.

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.

conic to columnar;

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

columnar;

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

7–15;

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

0.

250–400+;

corollas yellowish green, 3–4 mm;

style branches ca. 1 mm, apices acute.

300–500;

corollas brown-purple, 4.2–5.8 mm;

style branches ca. 2 mm, apices acute.

to 1.5 cm.

to 6 cm (foliaceous, faces scabrous).

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

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

4–5.5 mm;

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

3.5–5 mm;

pappi of 4 scales, to 1 mm.

15–35 × 14–22 mm.

30–80 × 18–30 mm.

= 36.