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 (dried, dark under reflected UV light), blades elliptic to lanceolate (not lobed), ± leathery, bases attenuate to cuneate or rounded, margins entire or coarsely toothed, apices acute, faces hairy;

basal petiolate, 15–65 × 2–15 cm;

cauline sessile (proximalmost often petiolate), 5–50 × 2–12 cm (mids ± pandurate, bases auriculate).

conic to columnar;

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

ovoid to ellipsoid;

paleae 6–8 mm, (apical margins densely ciliate) apices acute, abaxial tips hairy.

7–15;

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

10–15;

corollas yellow, laminae oblong to oblanceolate, 20–40 × 5–12 mm, abaxially hairy.

250–400+;

corollas yellowish green, 3–4 mm;

style branches ca. 1 mm, apices acute.

150–400+;

corollas greenish yellow proximally, maroon distally, 3.5–5 mm;

style branches ca. 2 mm, apices acute.

to 1.5 cm.

to 2 cm (margins ciliate).

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

(to 15) in ± corymbiform arrays.

4–5.5 mm;

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

3.5–5 mm;

pappi coroniform, to 2.5 mm.

15–35 × 14–22 mm.

12–25 × 12–20 mm.

= 36.

= 36.