Flora of North America species comparison

hispid to hirsute (hairs spreading, 1+ mm).

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 (not lobed), bases attenuate to cuneate, margins entire or serrate, apices acute, faces hispid to hirsute;

basal petiolate, blades 8–30 × 0.5–7 cm;

cauline petiolate or sessile, blades (sometimes pandurate) 3–20 × 0.4–4 cm.

conic to columnar;

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

hemispheric to ovoid;

paleae 4–6 mm, apices acute, often attenuate, abaxial tips hirsute to hispid.

7–15;

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

8–16;

laminae (usually uniformly yellow to yellow-orange or with a basal maroon splotch, sometimes mostly maroon) elliptic to oblong or oblanceolate, 15–45 × 5–10 mm, abaxially hispid to hirsute.

250–400+;

corollas yellowish green, 3–4 mm;

style branches ca. 1 mm, apices acute.

250–500+;

corollas proximally yellowish green, distally brown-purple, 3–4.2 mm;

style branches ca. 1.5 mm, apices subulate.

to 1.5 cm.

to 3 cm (faces hispid to hirsute).

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

borne singly or (2–5) in loose, corymbiform arrays.

4–5.5 mm;

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

1.5–2.7 mm;

pappi 0.

15–35 × 14–22 mm.

12–22 × 10–20 mm.

= 36.