Flora of North America species comparison

1–5, sparsely to moderately strigoso-puberulent.

1–5+, ascending to erect, hirtellous-puberulent 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.

basal and proximal cauline petiolate, tapering;

blades spatulate to oblanceolate, 20–150 × 5–40 mm, margins ciliate, serrate crenate, apices acute to rounded, faces glabrous;

distal usually 2–5, sessile, blades sometimes ± clasping, oblanceolate, 20–40 × 4–9 mm, distally reduced and becoming broadly to narrowly lanceolate, margins entire, apices acute to obtuse.

linear, 1–3 mm, bracteate.

5–6 mm, moderately hispidulo-strigillose;

bracteoles 0–1, linear-lanceolate.

narrowly campanulate, 3–5 mm.

broadly campanulate, 5–7.5 mm.

0(–2).

6–15;

laminae 2–4 × 1–2 mm.

4–8;

corollas 3 mm, lobes 1 mm.

12–35;

corollas 4–5.5 mm, lobes 1–2 mm.

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

unequal, outer (lengths 1/2 inner) deltate, acute, inner lanceolate, obtuse.

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

2–50(–160) in compact corymbiform arrays in smaller plants, corymbiform to paniculiform arrays in larger ones.

2.5–3 mm, moderately short-strigose;

pappi 2 mm.

1–2.5 mm, strigose;

pappi 3–5 mm.

= 18.

= 36.