Flora of North America species comparison

1–5, sparsely to moderately strigoso-puberulent.

1–6(–10), erect, short-canescent (hairs ascending to appressed).

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 tapering to long, winged petioles, blades spatulate-ovate to oblanceolate, 20–95 × 7–15 mm, margins crenate to entire, apices acute, faces densely puberulent;

mid and distal cauline (sometimes subtending axillary tufts of lateral branch leaves) sessile, blades linear-oblanceolate, 16–45 × 3–7 mm, reduced distally, margins entire.

linear, 1–3 mm, bracteate.

2–3.5 mm, bracteoles 0–4, linear.

narrowly campanulate, 3–5 mm.

narrowly campanulate, 2.6–5.8 mm.

0(–2).

5–11;

laminae 2.8–5.5 × 0.3–0.7 mm.

4–8;

corollas 3 mm, lobes 1 mm.

3–10; 2.5–4.6 mm, lobes 0.4-0.6 mm.

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

in 3 series, ovate to linear-lanceolate, unequal, outer acute, inner 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.

10–300, secund, in wandlike pyramidal, paniculiform arrays, secund to apically recurved, 8–25 × 2.5–10 cm, sometimes proximal branches elongate, repeating pattern.

2.5–3 mm, moderately short-strigose;

pappi 2 mm.

(obconic) 0.5–2 mm, strigose;

pappi 2–4 mm.

= 18.