Flora of North America species comparison

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

glabrous or with tufts of white hairs in leaf axils.

single or loosely clustered (erect or arching).

usually 1 (branching distally, unevenly reddish, usually somewhat lax).

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;

petiolate (proximal) or sessile;

blades lanceolate to lance-linear, 3–10+ × (0.5–)1–2 cm, bases tapered (or auriculate), margins (sometimes revolute) unevenly dentate to subentire (mid and distal leaves similar, smaller, bases expanded, ± truncate to cordate, clasping).

± 13;

corolla laminae ± 15 mm.

usually ± 8 or ± 13, rarely 0;

corolla laminae 8–10 mm.

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

± 21, (4–)5–8 mm, tips often with minute black dots.

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

of 3–5+ linear to subulate bractlets (to 1.5 mm).

nodding, 1(–2).

4–12 in loose, corymbiform arrays.

glabrous.

hairy.

= 40.