Flora of North America species comparison

erect, puberulent.

erect (stout, branched), glabrate.

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.

basal and proximalmost cauline withering by flowering;

cauline sessile;

blades linear, 10–80 × 1–10 mm, margins entire, apices acuminate, faces glabrate.

bracts absent.

bracts broadly lanceolate to narrowly ovate, glabrate.

4–7 mm at flowering.

4–6 mm.

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

pappi: inner series 4–5 mm.

obconic, 0.8–1.3 mm, densely strigose;

pappi: inner series 3–6 mm.

3–7;

corolla tubes 2–4 mm, laminae 2–6 mm.

2–6;

tubes 2–4 mm, laminae 4–11 mm.

9–20;

corolla tubes 3–4 mm, lobes 0.6–2 mm.

5–15;

corollas 2–4 mm, lobes 1–2 mm.

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

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

2–5 per branch, in corymbiform arrays.

2–4 per branch, in broadly corymbiform arrays.

= 18.

= 18.