Flora of North America species comparison

1–5, sparsely to moderately strigoso-puberulent.

usually 1, erect, glabrous, short hispido-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 and proximal cauline tapering to long petioles that partially sheath stems;

blades oblanceolate, 100–350 × 5–60 mm, margins subentire to serrate, apices acute;

mid to distal sessile, not sheathing stems, blades lanceolate, 20–50 × 5–10 mm, much reduced distally, margins entire.

linear, 1–3 mm, bracteate.

1–4 mm, glabrous or sparsely strigose.

narrowly campanulate, 3–5 mm.

3–5 mm.

0(–2).

1–8 (moderately conspicuous);

laminae 3.2–3.7 × 0.4–0.6 mm.

4–8;

corollas 3 mm, lobes 1 mm.

6–8;

corollas 4.6–5 mm, lobes 0.6–1 mm.

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

(14–18) in 3–5 series, unequal, usually apically ciliate;

outer ovate, acute, inner linear-oblong, obtuse.

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

35–230 in elongate paniculiform arrays, sometimes narrow and secund pyramidal, usually narrowly to broadly, non-secund thyrsiform;

branches strongly ascending with non-secund heads to arching with heads secund.

2.5–3 mm, moderately short-strigose;

pappi 2 mm.

1–2 mm, glabrous or sparsely strigillose;

pappi 2.7–3 mm (weakly clavate).

= 18.

= 18, 36.