Flora of North America species comparison

villous to glabrate.

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 (flat, not lobed), bases acute to rounded or cuneate, margins entire or serrate, apices acute, faces glabrous or sparsely strigose and gland-dotted;

basal petiolate, blades 10–20 × 2–5 cm;

cauline petiolate (proximal) or nearly sessile (distal), blades 2–20 × 1–4 cm.

conic to columnar;

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

hemispheric to ovoid;

paleae 3.2–4.2 mm, apices rounded to acute, abaxial tips canescent and gland-dotted.

7–15;

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

6–12;

laminae elliptic to oblanceolate (spreading), 15–30 × 3–6 mm, abaxially strigose and gland-dotted.

250–400+;

corollas yellowish green, 3–4 mm;

style branches ca. 1 mm, apices acute.

100–200+;

corollas proximally yellowish green, distally brown-purple, 3–4 mm;

style branches ca. 1.4 mm, apices obtuse.

to 1.5 cm.

to 1.5 cm (faces sparsely to moderately hairy and gland-dotted).

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

usually (4–8) in ± corymbiform arrays, sometimes borne singly.

4–5.5 mm;

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

2–3 mm;

pappi coroniform, to 1.5 mm (sometimes cypselae each with glandular hairs around apices).

15–35 × 14–22 mm.

10–15 × 7–15 mm.

= 36.