Flora of North America species comparison

1–5, sparsely to moderately strigoso-puberulent.

1–10+, ascending to erect, scabroso-puberulent at least in distal 1/2.

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 withering by flowering;

mid and distal cauline numerous;

subsessile or obscurely petiolate;

blades narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, 7–10 × 10–15 mm, firm, attenuate, margins distally serrate, eciliate, 3-nerved, apices acuminate or sharply acute, faces glabrous.

linear, 1–3 mm, bracteate.

0.5–3 mm, sparsely strigose;

bracteoles linear, minute.

narrowly campanulate, 3–5 mm.

narrowly campanulate, 4–5 mm.

0(–2).

5–8;

laminae 2–3 × 0.75 mm.

4–8;

corollas 3 mm, lobes 1 mm.

5–9;

corollas 3–3.5 mm, lobes 0.5 mm.

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

in 3–4 series, lanceolate to linear lanceolate, unequal, apices obtuse, innermost acute.

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

50–150, in paniculiform arrays, branches recurved, secund.

2.5–3 mm, moderately short-strigose;

pappi 2 mm.

ca. 2 mm, moderately short-strigose;

pappi 2–3 mm.

= 18.

= 36.