Flora of North America species comparison

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

glabrous.

single or loosely clustered (erect or arching).

usually single.

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 (basal and proximal withering before flowering);

petiolate (petioles purplish, weakly winged, 4–5 cm);

blades broadly triangular-ovate to suborbiculate, 2–4(–5) × 2.5–3 cm, bases truncate to ± cuneate, margins coarsely spinulose-dentate (mid leaves similar, persistent).

± 13;

corolla laminae ± 15 mm.

“few”;

corolla laminae ca. 7 mm (inconspicuous, equaling or barely surpassing phyllaries).

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

± 13, 7–9 mm, tips green.

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

of “few,” linear bractlets.

nodding, 1(–2).

nodding, 4–6.

glabrous.

glabrous.

= 40.