Flora of North America species comparison

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

(sometimes purple-tinged) floccose-tomentose (persistently on abaxial faces of leaves, glabrescent elsewhere).

single or loosely clustered (erect or arching).

single or 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; petiolate;

blades oblanceolate to ovate, (1–)2–6 × 1–2.5 cm, bases tapered, margins dentate or incised to subpinnatifid (distal leaves bractlike).

± 13;

corolla laminae ± 15 mm.

usually ± 13, sometimes fewer or 0;

corolla laminae 8–12 mm.

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

± 13 or ± 21, 7–10 mm, tips green.

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

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

nodding, 1(–2).

1(–5).

glabrous.

glabrous.

= 40.

= 40.