Flora of North America species comparison

1–5, sparsely to moderately strigoso-puberulent.

1–5+, erect, glabrous proximal to arrays.

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 quickly to long, winged ciliate-margined petioles, blades ovate, 50–200 × 20–100 mm, margins serrate;

mid to distal cauline sessile, blades oblanceolate, 30–100 × 8–35 mm, reduced distally and becoming lanceolate-ovate, margins entire, abaxially sparsely strigose along nerves.

linear, 1–3 mm, bracteate.

8–10 mm.

narrowly campanulate, 3–5 mm.

5–9 mm.

0(–2).

10–16;

laminae 4–6.5 × 0.4–0.6 mm.

4–8;

corollas 3 mm, lobes 1 mm.

15–30;

corollas 5–5.6 mm, lobes 0.5–1.2 mm.

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

(20–26) in 4–6 series, recurved, unequal, conspicuously spreading, lanceolate, margins ciliate, apices acute to obtuse, finely strigose.

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

20–200, not secund, in narrow, elongate arrays of axillary and terminal racemiform clusters, branches and peduncles hairy, leafy-bracteate proximally.

2.5–3 mm, moderately short-strigose;

pappi 2 mm.

(obconic) 1.5–2 mm, glabrous;

pappi 3–4.3 mm.

= 18.

= 18.