Flora of North America species comparison

1–5, sparsely to moderately strigoso-puberulent.

1–10+, ascending-erect, glabrous proximally, usually moderately scabrous-puberulent 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 often present at flowering as new rosettes;

basal and proximal cauline often with distal portions withering by flowering, long-petiolate, blades shiny, ± 3-nerved, linear to oblanceolate, (30–)100–250 × (2–)5–15 mm, margins entire or sparsely serrulate, faces glabrous;

mid and distal cauline sessile, blades linear-lanceolate to linear, 15–80 × 1–7 mm, much reduced distally, faces glabrous or scabrous.

linear, 1–3 mm, bracteate.

usually moderately to densely strigillose, sometimes sparsely so or glabrous;

bracts minute.

narrowly campanulate, 3–5 mm.

campanulate, 4.5–6 mm.

0(–2).

1–4;

laminae 3–5 × 1–1.5 mm.

4–8;

corollas 3 mm, lobes 1 mm.

7–13;

corollas 4–5 mm, lobes 0.5–1 mm.

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

in 3–4 series, broadly oblong, unequal, firm, striately nerved, rounded, 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.

20–150+ in compactly corymbiform arrays, sometimes somewhat rounded.

2.5–3 mm, moderately short-strigose;

pappi 2 mm.

(dark brown, obconic, full) 2–3 mm (7–10 nerved), glabrous;

pappi 4–5 mm (clavate).

= 18.

= 18.