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, blades lanceolate to ovate or elliptic, herbaceous, sometimes pinnately lobed, bases attenuate, ultimate margins entire or coarsely toothed, apices acute, faces (abaxial) sparsely hairy or glabrous (adaxial);

basal petiolate, 20–60 × 5–15 cm;

cauline petiolate or sessile, 10–30 × 3–15 cm.

conic to columnar;

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

conic to columnar;

paleae 5–6 mm, apices obtuse to acute, abaxial tips densely hairy.

7–15;

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

8–21;

laminae linear to elliptic or oblong, 3–6 × 1–1.6 cm, abaxially hairy.

250–400+;

corollas yellowish green, 3–4 mm;

style branches ca. 1 mm, apices acute.

200–300+;

corollas greenish yellow, 4–5 mm;

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

to 1.5 cm.

to 2 cm.

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

borne singly or (3–12) in ± corymbiform arrays.

4–5.5 mm;

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

4–5 mm;

pappi coroniform or of scales, to 1.5 mm.

15–35 × 14–22 mm.

15–60 × 14–25 mm.

= 36.

= 36.