Flora of North America species comparison

erect, puberulent.

basal persistent at flowering, winged-petiolate, blades oblanceolate to obovate or spatulate, 20–150 mm, serrate near apices, puberulent;

cauline sessile, blades narrowly to broadly ovate, 10–110 × 4–30 mm, bases cuneate, margins serrate, distal becoming entire, apices acuminate to acute, faces puberulent.

bracts absent.

4–7 mm at flowering.

fusiform-obconic, 0.8–2 mm, densely strigose;

pappi: inner series 4–5 mm.

3–7;

corolla tubes 2–4 mm, laminae 2–6 mm.

9–20;

corolla tubes 3–4 mm, lobes 0.6–2 mm.

in 3–4 series, outer 2–4 mm, mid 3–5 mm, glabrate.

2–5 per branch, in corymbiform arrays.

= 18.