Flora of North America species comparison

usually 1, ascending to erect, uniformly short villoso-strigose, occasionally glabrate proximally.

1–6(–10), erect, short-canescent (hairs ascending to appressed).

basal and proximal cauline short-petiolate, blades broadly ovate or elliptic-ovate, margins serrate, ± 3-nerved and pinnately nerved, abaxial faces (at least) evenly short villoso-strigose;

mid and distal cauline like proximal, 20–70 × 10–40 mm (1.3–2 times as long as wide), usually only those near arrays reduced and 1-nerved.

basal and proximal cauline tapering to long, winged petioles, blades spatulate-ovate to oblanceolate, 20–95 × 7–15 mm, margins crenate to entire, apices acute, faces densely puberulent;

mid and distal cauline (sometimes subtending axillary tufts of lateral branch leaves) sessile, blades linear-oblanceolate, 16–45 × 3–7 mm, reduced distally, margins entire.

1–6 mm;

bracteoles ovate, minute, grading into phyllaries.

2–3.5 mm, bracteoles 0–4, linear.

campanulate, 3–4.5 mm.

narrowly campanulate, 2.6–5.8 mm.

3–7;

laminae 1.5–2 × 0.5–1 mm.

5–11;

laminae 2.8–5.5 × 0.3–0.7 mm.

4–7;

corollas (abruptly ampliate) 3–3.5 mm, lobes ca. 1 mm.

3–10; 2.5–4.6 mm, lobes 0.4-0.6 mm.

in 3 series, strongly unequal, obtuse or rounded;

mid broadly oblong, inner narrowly so.

in 3 series, ovate to linear-lanceolate, unequal, outer acute, inner obtuse.

30–200+, apparently sometimes drooping, in open leafy, secund pyramidal, paniculiform arrays, branches recurved, leafy-bracteate, secund, proximalmost branch sometimes separated by several nodes from next.

10–300, secund, in wandlike pyramidal, paniculiform arrays, secund to apically recurved, 8–25 × 2.5–10 cm, sometimes proximal branches elongate, repeating pattern.

1.5–2 mm (4–8 translucent ribs), moderately short-strigose;

pappi 2–2.5 mm.

(obconic) 0.5–2 mm, strigose;

pappi 2–4 mm.

= 18.