Flora of North America species comparison

1–5, sparsely to moderately strigoso-puberulent.

1–5+, glabrous, sparsely strigose in 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 petiolate;

blades broadly elliptic to ovate, 100–350 × 60–120 mm (including petioles), bases truncate to obtuse, apices acute to acuminate, margins sharply serrate, glabrous;

distal cauline blades spreading to ascending, linear-elliptic, 30–50 × 6–15 mm.

linear, 1–3 mm, bracteate.

1.5–3 mm, glabrate to moderately short hispido-strigose, bracteoles 1–5, linear-lanceolate grading into phyllaries.

narrowly campanulate, 3–5 mm.

campanulate, (4.5–)5–7 mm (much exceeded by pappi).

0(–2).

4–9;

laminae 4–5 × 1.5–2.5 mm.

4–8;

corollas 3 mm, lobes 1 mm.

9–11;

corollas 4–5 mm, lobes ca. 1.5 mm.

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

in 3–4 series, linear-lanceolate, strongly unequal.

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

25–50+, in elongate, paniculiform arrays, proximal branches recurved-secund, sometimes elongate.

2.5–3 mm, moderately short-strigose;

pappi 2 mm.

(brown, ribs dark brown) 3 mm, sparsely short-strigose;

pappi 3–4 mm.

= 18.

= 54.