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 (rarely lobed), herbaceous, bases attenuate to cuneate or broadly rounded, ultimate margins entire or serrate, apices acute, faces sparsely to densely hairy (mostly adaxially), rarely glabrous;

basal petiolate, 12–30 × 3–9 cm;

cauline petiolate or sessile, 5–25 × 2–10 cm.

conic to columnar;

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

ovoid to columnar;

paleae (proximally light brown, distally green, becoming maroon with age) 5–7 mm, apices acute to acuminate, abaxial tips densely hairy.

7–15;

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

0.

250–400+;

corollas yellowish green, 3–4 mm;

style branches ca. 1 mm, apices acute.

200–500+;

corollas yellowish green proximally, blackish maroon distally, 4–6 mm;

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

to 1.5 cm.

to 3 cm (margins mostly ciliate, hairy, especially abaxially).

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

in ± corymbiform arrays.

4–5.5 mm;

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

3.5–5 mm;

pappi coroniform, to 1.2 mm.

15–35 × 14–22 mm.

17–45 × 12–20 mm.

= 36.

= 36.