Flora of North America species comparison

1–5, sparsely to moderately strigoso-puberulent.

1–20, erect, finely scabroso-puberulent, sparsely so with age proximally, densely so distally.

basal petioles 3–5 cm, blades oblanceolate or spatulate to ovate or rotund, 2–4 cm (excluding petioles);

cauline (numerous) subsessile or sessile, blades elliptic or lance-elliptic to ovate, mid mostly 25–50(–65) × 10–25 mm, distal much reduced;

branch leaf petioles 1 mm, blades ovate, 5–15 (excluding petioles) × 2–10 mm.

basal and proximal cauline withering by flowering, subsessile, gradually tapering to short-winged petiole-like bases;

mid and distal cauline sessile, blades linear-elliptic to linear-lanceolate, 40–90 × 4–5 mm, 3-nerved from base, midnerves prominent, margins entire, finely scabrous, apices attenuate-acute, faces finely, sparsely to moderately strigose, more so on main nerves, finer nerves translucent, faces sometimes shiny.

linear, 1–3 mm, bracteate.

2–6 mm, finely strigose;

bracteoles 1–10, often crowded, linear-lanceolate, 2–3 mm, grading into phyllaries.

narrowly campanulate, 3–5 mm.

narrowly campanulate, 3.5–4 mm.

0(–2).

4–5;

laminae 1.5–2.5 × 0.5 mm.

4–8;

corollas 3 mm, lobes 1 mm.

6–8, 3–3.5 mm, lobes 0.5 mm.

in 3–4 series, lanceolate, strongly unequal, margins ciliate, apices acute, glabrous.

in 3–4 series, linear-lanceolate, strongly unequal, margins hyaline, distally subulate-ciliate, apices acute, glabrous.

75–200 in open paniculiform arrays, branches divaricate, ascending to recurved, weakly to strongly secund, to 50 cm, secondary branches less than 3 cm.

25–350, in short to elongate, secund paniculiform arrays, branches ascending or ascending and distally recurved, sometimes second, sometimes elongate.

2.5–3 mm, moderately short-strigose;

pappi 2 mm.

(narrowly obconic) 1.5–2.5 mm, sparsely strigillose;

pappi 3 mm.

= 18.

= 18.