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.

greenish blue (± glaucous), blades ovate to elliptic, often lobed, herbaceous, bases attenuate to rounded, margins entire, coarsely dentate, or crenate, apices acute, faces glabrous or sparsely hairy (at least on abaxial veins);

basal petiolate, 15–65 × 4–15 cm;

cauline petiolate or sessile, 7–35 × 4–14 cm.

conic to columnar;

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

ovoid to conic;

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

7–15;

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

7–15;

laminae elliptic or oblong, 25–35 × 7–14 mm, abaxially hairy.

250–400+;

corollas yellowish green, 3–4 mm;

style branches ca. 1 mm, apices acute.

180–300+;

corollas yellowish green, 3.5–4 mm;

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

to 1.5 cm.

to 1.5 cm (margins ciliate, hairs appressed, apices acute to rounded).

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

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

4–5.5 mm;

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

4.5–6 mm;

pappi coroniform or of 5–8 scales, to 1.5 mm.

15–35 × 14–22 mm.

15–35 × 12–22 mm.

= 36.

= 36.