Flora of North America species comparison

glabrous.

(sometimes reddish-tinged, especially proximally) glabrous.

1–(2–4).

1–3 (arching upward).

(thickish-turgid) progressively reduced distally; petiolate;

blades broadly lanceolate to subelliptic, 2.5–15 × 1–5 cm, bases tapered, margins sharply dentate to subentire (some teeth callous; mid leaves sometimes larger than proximal; distal leaves sessile, smaller, often clasping).

evenly distributed (proximal often withering before flowering); obscurely petiolate or sessile;

blades oblanceolate to lance-linear (sometimes with 1–2 lateral lobes), 2–4 cm × 3–5 mm, bases subdecurrent, weakly clasping, margins entire or wavy (often revolute).

± 8 or ± 13;

corolla laminae 5–12 mm.

± 8;

corolla laminae 5–10 mm.

(± 8) ± 13 or ± 21, 5–9 mm, tips black (villous).

± 13, 5–7(–8) mm.

of (1–)3–6 linear to filiform bractlets (lengths to 1/3 phyllaries).

of 3–5+ (inconspicuous) bractlets.

(1–)4–12 in corymbiform arrays.

1(–4).

glabrous.

glabrous.

= 40.