Flora of North America species comparison

1–5, sparsely to moderately strigoso-puberulent.

1–5+, erect, 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 and proximal cauline tapering to long petioles, blades oblanceolate to obovate, 50–150 × 10–50 mm, margins serrate, apices acute, faces puberulent;

mid to distal cauline sessile, blades lanceolate to linear-elliptic, 10–50 × 3–10 mm, reduced distally, margins becoming entire, apices acute.

linear, 1–3 mm, bracteate.

1.5–3 mm.

narrowly campanulate, 3–5 mm.

campanulate, 3–5 mm.

0(–2).

9–16 (orange-yellow);

laminae 3.5–4.2 × 0.4–0.6 mm.

4–8;

corollas 3 mm, lobes 1 mm.

(6–)10–15;

corollas 2.8–3 mm, lobes 0.5–0.8 mm.

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

in 3–4 series, appressed, unequal, linear, attenuate, puberulent.

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

15–250, not secund, in elongate, paniculiform arrays, lateral racemiform clusters short and ascending, sometimes lateral branches elongated and sharply ascending.

2.5–3 mm, moderately short-strigose;

pappi 2 mm.

0.8–1.3 mm, glabrous or sparsely strigose;

pappi 2.2–2.6 mm.

= 18.