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 (lightly glaucous), blades elliptic to lanceolate (not lobed), leathery, bases attenuate to cuneate, margins crenate, entire, or toothed, apices acute, faces glabrous or sparsely hairy;

basal petiolate, 15–60 × 2–8 cm;

cauline petiolate or sessile, 5–50 × 2–9 cm.

conic to columnar;

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

ovate to columnar;

paleae (recurved prior to flowering, erect to spreading in young heads) 5–6 mm, apices acute to acuminate, abaxial tips hairy.

7–15;

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

8–15;

laminae oblong to oblanceolate, 12–60 × 5–15 mm, abaxially sparsely hairy.

250–400+;

corollas yellowish green, 3–4 mm;

style branches ca. 1 mm, apices acute.

200–300+;

corollas yellowish green proximally, maroon distally, 3.5–4.5 mm;

style branches ca. 1.2 mm, apices acute to acuminate.

to 1.5 cm.

to 2 cm (margins sometimes ciliate, sparsely hairy).

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

borne singly or in ± corymbiform arrays.

4–5.5 mm;

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

3–5.5 mm;

pappi ± coroniform, to 2 mm.

15–35 × 14–22 mm.

10–30 × 12–20 mm.

= 36.

= 36.