Flora of North America species comparison

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

glabrous (or with hairs on peduncles).

single or loosely clustered (erect or arching).

single (often purplish-tinged).

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).

mostly basal;

petiolate (petioles ± winged, lengths 1–3+ blades);

blades broadly ovate to ovate-orbiculate, (1.5–)2.5–4.5(–6) × 1.5–4(–5) cm, bases truncate or tapered, margins weakly dentate or repand-denticulate to subentire (cauline leaves smaller, bractlike).

± 13;

corolla laminae ± 15 mm.

± 13+;

corolla laminae 10–14 mm.

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

± 21, (8–)10–16 mm, tips green.

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

of 3–5+ lanceolate to lance-linear bractlets (lengths 1/2–2/3 phyllaries).

nodding, 1(–2).

nodding, 1(–2).

glabrous.

glabrous.

= 40.