Flora of North America species comparison

1–5+, sparsely to moderately short strigose or villous.

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

basal withering by flowering, petiolate, smaller to much smaller than cauline, blades oblanceolate, margins serrate;

cauline sessile, blades elliptic-lanceolate or -oblanceolate, mid 80–140 × 2.5–4 mm, distally reduced, usually membranous, bases tapering, attenuate, margins sharply toothed along much of length to nearly entire, ciliate, abaxial faces short-pilose along small and large nerves, adaxial short-pilose along larger nerves.

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.

1–6 mm, moderately canescent;

bracteoles linear to lanceolate.

0.5–3 mm, sparsely strigose;

bracteoles linear, minute.

campanulate, 4.5–5.5 mm.

narrowly campanulate, 4–5 mm.

6–8;

laminae 3–4 × 1–1.5 mm wide.

5–8;

laminae 2–3 × 0.75 mm.

8–14;

corollas 4–5 mm, lobes ca. 1.5 mm.

5–9;

corollas 3–3.5 mm, lobes 0.5 mm.

in ca. 3 series, strongly unequal, erect to slightly squarrose-tipped, lanceolate, apices acute, glabrate, sparsely to moderately, finely stipitate-glandular.

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

5–160 (2–10+ more per short branch cluster), in narrowly elongate paniculiform arrays, branches usually 1–6 cm (much longer in damaged plants, sometimes 1–3 proximal branches much elongated in undamaged plants), ascending and bearing short terminal racemiform or paniculiform clusters.

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

(reddish brown) 2–3 mm, glabrous;

pappi 4–5 mm.

ca. 2 mm, moderately short-strigose;

pappi 2–3 mm.

= 36.