Flora of North America species comparison

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

(often purple-tinged) glabrous.

single or loosely clustered.

clustered (arching upward to semiprostrate).

± 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).

evenly distributed or smaller and fewer distally (somewhat stiffish-succulent when fresh, proximalmost and distalmost often smaller, bractlike);

petiolate;

blades ovate or obovate to oblanceolate, 2–5(–7) × 1–3(–4) cm, bases ± truncate to tapered, margins laciniate to dentate or subentire.

usually ± 13, sometimes fewer or 0;

corolla laminae 8–12 mm.

± 8;

corolla laminae 8–12 mm.

± 13 or ± 21, 7–10 mm, tips green.

(± 8) ± 13 (± 21), 5–12 mm, tips green or brownish.

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

0 or of 1–5+ usually lance-deltate to linear, sometimes foliaceous, bractlets (lengths mostly 1/5–1/2 phyllaries).

1(–5).

1–5+.

glabrous.

glabrous or strigose-hirtellous, at least on angles.

= 40.

= 40, 40+, 80.