Flora of North America species comparison

densely hirsute (hairs mostly antrorse, to 0.5 mm).

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.

blades ovate to elliptic (not lobed), margins denticulate to serrate, apices acute to obtuse or acuminate, faces densely hirsute and gland-dotted (glands fewer adaxially);

basal 15–30 × 3–10 cm, bases attenuate;

cauline petiolate, ovate to elliptic, proximal 3–25 × 1–15 cm, usually 3–5-lobed, bases truncate to cuneate or rounded.

conic to columnar;

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

conic to hemispheric;

paleae 4–6 mm, apices acute, abaxial tips hirsute and gland-dotted.

7–15;

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

10–16;

laminae (yellow to yellow-orange) linear to oblanceolate, 20–40 × 5–8 mm, abaxially sparsely hairy, abundantly gland-dotted.

250–400+;

corollas yellowish green, 3–4 mm;

style branches ca. 1 mm, apices acute.

200–400+;

corollas yellowish green on basal 1/2, otherwise brown-purple, 3–4.2 mm;

style branches ca. 1 mm, apices acute.

to 1.5 cm.

to 1.5 cm (faces hairy and ± gland-dotted).

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

(8–25) in loose, corymbiform to paniculiform arrays.

4–5.5 mm;

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

2–3.5 mm;

pappi coroniform, to ca. 0.2 mm.

15–35 × 14–22 mm.

10–17 × 5–15 mm.

= 36.

= 38.