Flora of North America species comparison

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

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 hemispheric;

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

10–16;

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

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 (faces hairy and ± gland-dotted).

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

2–3.5 mm;

pappi coroniform, to ca. 0.2 mm.

10–17 × 5–15 mm.

= 38.