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 (glaucous), blades (3–5-nerved) narrowly lanceolate to linear (not lobed), leathery, bases attenuate, margins entire (sometimes ciliate), apices acute, faces glabrous;

basal petiolate, 10–40 × 0.5–1.5 cm;

cauline petiolate or sessile, 2–25 × 0.2–0.8 cm.

conic to columnar;

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

ovoid or ellipsoid to hemispheric;

paleae 4–5 mm, glabrous or sparsely hairy, apices obtuse, acuminate.

7–15;

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

7–14;

laminae elliptic to oblanceolate, 12–30 × 5–10 mm, abaxially glabrous.

250–400+;

corollas yellowish green, 3–4 mm;

style branches ca. 1 mm, apices acute.

100–200+;

corollas yellowish green proximally, maroon distally, 3–4 mm;

style branches ca. 1 mm, apices acute to blunt.

to 1.5 cm.

to 1 cm.

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

(3–15) in ± corymbiform arrays.

4–5.5 mm;

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

3.4–4.2 mm;

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

15–35 × 14–22 mm.

9–15 × 7–17 mm.

= 36.

= 36.