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.

green, blades broadly ovate to lanceolate, all but distalmost 1–2-pinnatifid or pinnately compound, leaflets/lobes 3–11, bases cuneate to attenuate or cordate, margins entire or dentate, apices acute to acuminate, faces glabrous or hairy (sometimes with translucent patches);

basal (often withering before flowering) petiolate, 15–50 × 10–25 cm;

cauline petiolate or sessile, mostly lobed to pinnatifid, sometimes not lobed, 8–40 × 3–20 cm.

conic to columnar;

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

hemispheric or ovoid to globose;

paleae 3–7 mm, apices (at least of proximal) truncate or rounded, abaxial tips densely hairy.

7–15;

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

8–12;

laminae elliptic to oblanceolate, 15–50 × 4–14 mm, abaxially hairy.

250–400+;

corollas yellowish green, 3–4 mm;

style branches ca. 1 mm, apices acute.

150–300+;

corollas yellow to yellowish green (lobes yellow), 3.5–5 mm;

style branches 1–1.5 mm, apices acute to rounded.

to 1.5 cm.

to 2 cm (8–15, ovate to lanceolate, margins mostly ciliate, glabrous or hairy).

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

(2–25) in loose, corymbiform arrays.

4–5.5 mm;

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

3–4.5 mm;

pappi coroniform or of 4 scales, to 1.5 mm.

15–35 × 14–22 mm.

9–30 × 10–23 mm.

= 36.