Flora of North America species comparison

glabrate to hirsute or strigose (hairs 1–2 mm, basal retrorse, others spreading).

blades ovate to subcordate or elliptic (not lobed), margins serrate, apices acute to acuminate, faces hirsute to strigose;

basal petiolate, 10–30 × 2–8 cm, bases truncate or rounded to cordate;

cauline petiolate or sessile, ovate to elliptic, proximal usually 3–5-lobed, 2–20 × 1.5–8 cm (smaller, fewer lobed distally), bases rounded to attenuate, sometimes clasping.

blades 3–15 × 0.5–4 cm.

1–4 cm diam.

conic to subhemispheric;

paleae 5–6.5 mm, apices cuspidate (tips awnlike, 1.5+ mm), glabrous.

8–15;

laminae (corollas yellow to yellow-orange with basal maroon splotches) linear to oblanceolate, 8–30 × 3–8 mm, abaxially sparsely strigose.

spreading, eventually reflexed, elliptic to obovate, 12–30 × 7–15 mm, abaxially hirsute.

150–300+;

corollas yellowish green basally, otherwise brown-purple, 3–4 mm;

style branches ca. 1.2 mm, apices obtuse to rounded.

2.8–3.5 mm.

to 1.5 cm (faces moderately hirsute).

spreading to reflexed, green, linear to lanceolate, herbaceous.

(10–30) in paniculiform arrays.

1.9–2.8 mm;

pappi coroniform, to 0.2 mm.

each face 4–5-striate and minutely cross-rugose, glabrous;

pappi 0 (cypselae each with ring of tan tissue at apex, ca. 0.1 mm).

8–15 × 10–20 mm.

= 32.