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.

bluish green (heavily glaucous, dried blades white under UV light, at least abaxially), blades elliptic, ovate to obovate or pandurate (not lobed), leathery, margins crenate, dentate, or entire, apices acute to rounded, faces glabrous;

basal petiolate, elliptic to ovate, 15–65 × 4–15 cm, bases attenuate to cuneate;

cauline petiolate or sessile, 7–50 × 4–14 cm, blades ovate to pandurate, bases cuneate to auriculate (and clasping).

conic to hemispheric;

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

ovoid to conic;

paleae 6–8 mm, apices mostly rounded, abaxial tips glabrous (hairy subapically).

10–16;

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

10–20;

laminae elliptic to oblanceolate, 30–80 × 8–15 mm, abaxially sparsely hairy.

200–400+;

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

style branches ca. 1 mm, apices acute.

300–600+;

corollas maroon (at least distally), 4–6 mm;

style branches ca. 2.2 mm, apices acute.

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

to 1.5 cm (ovate to lanceolate, margins ciliate).

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

borne singly or (3–15) in ± corymbiform arrays.

2–3.5 mm;

pappi coroniform, to ca. 0.2 mm.

6.5–7 mm;

pappi of 4–6 scales to 1.5 mm.

10–17 × 5–15 mm.

40–80 × 15–35 mm.

= 38.

= 36.