Flora of North America species comparison

(sometimes purplish-tinged) floccose-tomentose, unevenly glabrescent.

floccose-tomentose, unevenly glabrescent (persistently hairy on abaxial leaf faces).

single or loosely clustered (erect or arching).

usually single, sometimes loosely clustered.

mostly cauline; petiolate (petioles about equaling blades);

blades lanceolate or oblanceolate to ovate, (2–)4–8+ × 1.5–3 cm, bases tapered, margins denticulate (distal leaves smaller, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, bractlike).

± evenly distributed (basal and proximal sometimes withering before flowering); petiolate (proximal) or sessile;

blades ovoid or oblong to spatulate (usually pinnatifid to pinnatisect, lobes ± lanceolate to linear), (3–)5–12 × (1.5–)2–4 cm, bases tapered to ± truncate, ultimate margins (often revolute) dentate or entire.

± 13;

corolla laminae ± 15 mm.

± 13;

corolla laminae 12–15 mm.

usually ± 21, sometimes ± 13, (8–)10–15 mm, tips usually greenish (often sparsely hairy).

± 13, 5–7 mm, tips green or greenish.

of 4–8 lanceolate to lance-linear bractlets (lengths mostly less than 1/2 phyllaries).

of 4–6(–10) bractlets (lengths to 1/2 phyllaries).

nodding, 1(–2).

20–60 in corymbiform arrays.

glabrous.

hairy.

= 40.