Flora of North America species comparison

1–20(–50+), stout, finely puberulent or scabrous-puberulent at least distally.

basal absent at flowering;

cauline sessile to short-petiolate;

blades usually lanceolate-elliptic or ovate, sometimes linear-lanceolate, 30–150 × 5–30 mm, thick and firm, margins entire or few toothed, somewhat to much reduced distally, abaxial faces sometimes resinous and shiny, glabrous or strigillose (hairs mostly 0.1–1.4 mm), adaxial glabrous or scabrous.

mostly 2–15 mm, bracteolate, sparsely to densely short hispid-strigose.

campanulate, 4.5–7.5 mm.

(5–)7–9;

laminae 3–7 × 1–2 mm.

(8–)10–16;

corollas 4–5 mm, lobes ca. 1–2 mm.

in 3–4 series, unequal, linear-lanceolate, acute to attenuate, ± squarrose-tipped, glabrous or moderately strigose, sparsely to moderately stipitate-glandular, sometimes viscid.

10–190+ in paniculiform (rarely racemiform) arrays, usually elongate, usually leafy-bracteate, bracts similar to distal leaves but reduced;

branches stiffly ascending, not secund, sometimes elongate.

3–4 mm, glabrous or glabrate;

pappi ca. 4 mm.

= 18, 36, 54.