Flora of North America species comparison

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

softly pilose to woolly (hairs spreading, 1–4 mm, longer ones toward bases).

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 oblong to oblong-lanceolate (not lobed), margins entire or serrate, apices acute to obtuse, faces softly pilose to woolly, gland-dotted;

basal petiolate, 5–12 × 0.5–2 cm, bases attenuate;

cauline sessile, (elliptic to pandurate) 1.5–10 × 1–4 cm (mid largest, bases cuneate to auriculate).

conic to subhemispheric;

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

conic to hemispheric;

paleae 5–6.5 mm, apices acute, abaxial tips hirsute and gland-dotted.

8–15;

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

10–16;

laminae linear to oblanceolate, 20–40 × 4–7 mm, abaxially hairy and gland-dotted.

150–300+;

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

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

200–400+;

corolla bases yellowish green, otherwise brown-purple, 3–4.2 mm;

style branches ca. 1.5 mm, apices acute to obtuse.

to 1.5 cm (faces moderately hirsute).

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

(10–30) in paniculiform arrays.

borne singly or (2–12) in loose, corymbiform arrays.

1.9–2.8 mm;

pappi coroniform, to 0.2 mm.

2.5–3.5 mm;

pappi 0 or coroniform, to 0.1 mm.

8–15 × 10–20 mm.

10–20 × 12–18 mm.

= 38.