Flora of North America species comparison

proximally glabrous or sparsely hairy (hairs spreading), distally strigose (hairs ascending).

blades elliptic, lanceolate, or ovate (± conduplicate, not lobed), bases cuneate to rounded, margins entire or remotely serrate, apices acute, faces strigose, abaxially gland-dotted;

basal petiolate, 10–35 × 2–11 cm;

cauline petiolate (proximal) to nearly sessile (distal), 4–30 × 1.5–9 cm.

hemispheric to ovoid;

paleae 5–6.5 mm, (apical margins glabrous) acuminate-cuspidate, awn-tipped, abaxial tips sparsely strigose.

12–25;

laminae elliptic to obovate (reflexed), 20–50 × 5–10 mm, abaxially hairy and gland-dotted.

200–800+;

corollas greenish yellow basally and in lobes, otherwise maroon, 3.5–5 mm;

style branches ca. 1.8 mm, apices obtuse.

to 15 mm (strigose and gland-dotted).

mostly borne singly.

2–3 mm;

pappi coroniform, to 0.5 mm.

10–30 × 15–25 mm.