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.

green, blades elliptic to lanceolate (not lobed), ± leathery, bases attenuate to cuneate, margins entire, serrate, or toothed, apices acute to acuminate, faces glabrous or sparsely hairy;

basal 15–50 × 3–9 cm;

cauline petiolate or sessile, 5–50 × 2–12 cm.

hemispheric to ovoid;

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

ovoid to ellipsoid;

paleae 6–8 mm, apices acute (appressed in young heads), abaxial tips hairy.

12–25;

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

10–16;

laminae oblong to oblanceolate, 20–50 × 8–12 mm, abaxially hairy.

200–800+;

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

style branches ca. 1.8 mm, apices obtuse.

200–500+;

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

style branches ca. 2 mm, apices acute.

to 15 mm (strigose and gland-dotted).

to 2.5 cm (margins sometimes ciliate).

mostly borne singly.

borne singly or (2–5) in ± corymbiform arrays.

2–3 mm;

pappi coroniform, to 0.5 mm.

5–7.5 mm;

pappi coroniform, to 1.5 mm.

10–30 × 15–25 mm.

20–45 × 10–20 mm.

= 36.