Flora of North America species comparison

glabrate to hirsute or strigose (hairs 1–2 mm, basal retrorse, others spreading).

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 subcordate or elliptic (not lobed), margins serrate, apices acute to acuminate, faces hirsute to strigose;

basal petiolate, 10–30 × 2–8 cm, bases truncate or rounded to cordate;

cauline petiolate or sessile, ovate to elliptic, proximal usually 3–5-lobed, 2–20 × 1.5–8 cm (smaller, fewer lobed distally), bases rounded to attenuate, sometimes clasping.

conic to columnar;

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

conic to subhemispheric;

paleae 5–6.5 mm, apices cuspidate (tips awnlike, 1.5+ mm), glabrous.

7–15;

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

8–15;

laminae (corollas yellow to yellow-orange with basal maroon splotches) linear to oblanceolate, 8–30 × 3–8 mm, abaxially sparsely strigose.

250–400+;

corollas yellowish green, 3–4 mm;

style branches ca. 1 mm, apices acute.

150–300+;

corollas yellowish green basally, otherwise brown-purple, 3–4 mm;

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

to 1.5 cm.

to 1.5 cm (faces moderately hirsute).

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

(10–30) in paniculiform arrays.

4–5.5 mm;

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

1.9–2.8 mm;

pappi coroniform, to 0.2 mm.

15–35 × 14–22 mm.

8–15 × 10–20 mm.

= 36.