Flora of North America species comparison

1–5, sparsely to moderately strigoso-puberulent.

1–5+, ascending to erect, glabrous or moderately hairy in arrays.

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.

rosettes present at flowering, often in large numbers;

basal and proximal cauline tapering to long-winged petioles, blades oblanceolate to elongate-elliptic, 140–300 (including petioles) × 33–63 mm, gradually reduced distally, somewhat fleshy-rubbery (fresh), margins serrate (teeth 8–18), apices acuminate, abaxial faces glabrous, adaxial glabrous or sparsely strigose;

mid to distal cauline sessile, blades narrowly lanceolate, 35–72 × 9–16 mm, gradually reduced into arrays, tapering to bases, margins entire to slightly serrate, apices acuminate, faces glabrous or sparsely hairy.

linear, 1–3 mm, bracteate.

5–12 mm, glabrate to sparsely strigose;

bracteoles 0(–1).

narrowly campanulate, 3–5 mm.

campanulate, 10–11 mm.

0(–2).

6–13;

laminae 3.3–5 × (1.5–)2–3(–3.5) mm.

4–8;

corollas 3 mm, lobes 1 mm.

12–29;

corollas 3.7–5.1 mm, lobes 1.5–2.3 mm.

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

in 3–4 series, unequal, outermost ovate, 2.3–3.6 mm, 1-nerved, apices obtuse to acute, innermost linear-oblong, 1–3-nerved (on at least some involucres), apices obtuse to blunt.

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

20–230 (1–10 per branch), in leafy, short, axillary and terminal, racemo-paniculiform clusters 8–41(–47) cm.

2.5–3 mm, moderately short-strigose;

pappi 2 mm.

(obconic) 2–2.6 mm, glabrous or sparsely strigose;

pappi 4.8–5.7 mm.

= 18.

= 108, 126.