Flora of North America species comparison

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

glabrous.

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).

progressively reduced distally;

petiolate;

blades narrowly lanceolate to oblanceolate, 8–15(–20+) × (0.5–)1–3(–4) cm, bases tapered, margins entire or dentate (mid and distal leaves sessile, bractlike).

± 13;

corolla laminae ± 15 mm.

0.

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

usually ± 13, rarely ± 8, 5–9 mm, tips green.

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

of 2–6 lance-linear bractlets.

nodding, 1(–2).

nodding, (3–)8–16(–40+) in racemiform or paniculiform arrays.

glabrous.

glabrous.

= 40.