Flora of North America species comparison

1–5, sparsely to moderately strigoso-puberulent.

1–6, decumbent to ascending, finely and densely puberulent.

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 present at flowering;

basal and proximal petiolate, blades oblanceolate to narrowly obovate or spatulate, 20–100 × 5–20 mm, basal much smaller than proximal, margins serrate or entire, somewhat 3-nerved, apices obtuse to acute, cuspidate, faces moderately to densely finely puberulent;

mid and distal cauline sessile, blades oblanceolate to elliptic to base, 1 prominent nerve, 10–30 × 4–12 mm, greatly reduced distally, attenuate, margins entire or distally serrate, apices acute, faces densely finely puberulent.

linear, 1–3 mm, bracteate.

2–7 mm, moderately puberulent;

bracteoles 0–2, elliptic, minute.

narrowly campanulate, 3–5 mm.

campanulate, 4–6 mm.

0(–2).

(5–)6–10 (fewer than number of disc florets);

laminae ca. 3 × 1.3–1.6 mm.

4–8;

corollas 3 mm, lobes 1 mm.

8–20;

corollas 4–4.5 mm, lobes 0.8–1.1 mm.

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

in 3–4 series, oblong, strongly unequal, margins ciliate, apices blunt, 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.

30–100, in broadly corymbiform (modified paniculiform) arrays, sometimes somewhat secund.

2.5–3 mm, moderately short-strigose;

pappi 2 mm.

(narrowly obconic) 2–2.8 mm, sparsely strigose;

pappi 3.5–4 mm.

= 18.

= 18.