Flora of North America species comparison

moderately strigose (hairs ascending).

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.

blades narrowly lanceolate to elliptic (grasslike, lengths 10+ times widths, not lobed), herbaceous, bases attenuate, margins entire, apices acute, faces glabrous or sparsely hirsute;

basal petiolate or sessile, 10–25 × 0.5–1 cm;

cauline sessile, 1–25 × 0.2–1 cm (distal smaller), bases attenuate.

conic to columnar;

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

hemispheric to ovoid;

paleae 4–5 mm, (apical margins glabrous) apices acuminate-cuspidate, awn-tipped, abaxial tips sparsely strigose.

7–15;

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

8–16;

corollas orangish red to maroon, laminae elliptic to obovate, 10–25 × 3–6 mm, abaxially sparsely strigose.

250–400+;

corollas yellowish green, 3–4 mm;

style branches ca. 1 mm, apices acute.

50–300+;

corollas proximally maroon, distally brown-purple, 3.9–4.4 mm;

style branches ca. 1.8 mm, apices obtuse to rounded.

to 1.5 cm.

to 1 cm (spreading to reflexed).

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

mostly borne singly.

4–5.5 mm;

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

2–3 mm;

pappi coroniform, to 0.5 mm.

15–35 × 14–22 mm.

10–15 × 8–15 mm.

= 36.

= 38.