Flora of North America species comparison

proximally glabrous or sparsely hairy (hairs spreading), distally 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 elliptic, lanceolate, or ovate (± conduplicate, not lobed), bases cuneate to rounded, margins entire or remotely serrate, apices acute, faces strigose, abaxially gland-dotted;

basal petiolate, 10–35 × 2–11 cm;

cauline petiolate (proximal) to nearly sessile (distal), 4–30 × 1.5–9 cm.

conic to columnar;

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

hemispheric to ovoid;

paleae 5–6.5 mm, (apical margins glabrous) acuminate-cuspidate, awn-tipped, abaxial tips sparsely strigose.

7–15;

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

12–25;

laminae elliptic to obovate (reflexed), 20–50 × 5–10 mm, abaxially hairy and gland-dotted.

250–400+;

corollas yellowish green, 3–4 mm;

style branches ca. 1 mm, apices acute.

200–800+;

corollas greenish yellow basally and in lobes, otherwise maroon, 3.5–5 mm;

style branches ca. 1.8 mm, apices obtuse.

to 1.5 cm.

to 15 mm (strigose and gland-dotted).

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.

10–30 × 15–25 mm.

= 36.