Flora of North America species comparison

1–5, sparsely to moderately strigoso-puberulent.

1, erect, slender.

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 tufted, tapering, petiolate, petioles 20–100 mm, blades oblanceolate or elliptic, 30–120 (including petiole) × 5–15 mm, obtuse to rounded;

cauline sessile, blades oblanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 5–80 × 4–1.3 mm, abruptly reduced proximally, becoming bractlike proximal to arrays.

linear, 1–3 mm, bracteate.

2–25 mm;

bracteoles crowded, linear, 1–2 mm, grading into phyllaries.

narrowly campanulate, 3–5 mm.

broadly campanulate, 3.5–5 mm.

0(–2).

6–14;

laminae 2–3 × 1–2 mm.

4–8;

corollas 3 mm, lobes 1 mm.

mostly 12–30;

corollas 3.5–4 mm, lobes 0.5–0.75 mm.

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

in 3–4 series, linear-lanceolate, strongly unequal, acute to slightly acuminate or cuspidate, 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.

5–20(–50), in slender racemiform or paniculiform arrays, sometimes secund and apically recurved, more often erect and not secund, sometimes compact and somewhat rounded to only slightly elongate.

2.5–3 mm, moderately short-strigose;

pappi 2 mm.

1.5–2 mm, sparsely finely strigose;

pappi (basally broader and flattened, fused to varying lengths) 3–4 mm (somewhat clavate).

= 18.

= 36.