Flora of North America species comparison

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

hispid to hirsute (hairs spreading, 1+ 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.

blades elliptic, lanceolate, or ovate (not lobed), bases attenuate to cuneate, margins entire or serrate, apices acute, faces hispid to hirsute;

basal petiolate, blades 8–30 × 0.5–7 cm;

cauline petiolate or sessile, blades (sometimes pandurate) 3–20 × 0.4–4 cm.

conic to hemispheric;

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

hemispheric to ovoid;

paleae 4–6 mm, apices acute, often attenuate, abaxial tips hirsute to hispid.

10–16;

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

8–16;

laminae (usually uniformly yellow to yellow-orange or with a basal maroon splotch, sometimes mostly maroon) elliptic to oblong or oblanceolate, 15–45 × 5–10 mm, abaxially hispid to hirsute.

200–400+;

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

style branches ca. 1 mm, apices acute.

250–500+;

corollas proximally yellowish green, distally brown-purple, 3–4.2 mm;

style branches ca. 1.5 mm, apices subulate.

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

to 3 cm (faces hispid to hirsute).

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

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

2–3.5 mm;

pappi coroniform, to ca. 0.2 mm.

1.5–2.7 mm;

pappi 0.

10–17 × 5–15 mm.

12–22 × 10–20 mm.

= 38.