Flora of North America species comparison

1–10+, erect, stout, hairy.

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

basal and proximal cauline usually present at flowering, abruptly narrowed to long petioles, blades ovate to rhombic, 80–200 × 24–50 mm, firm, flat, margins entire to crenate, sometimes undulate, apices obtuse to acute, faces densely hairy;

mid to distal cauline sessile, blades ovate, 30–50 × 15–17 mm, stiff, greatly reduced distally, margins entire or finely serrate, sometimes undulate, apices acute to obtuse.

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.

3–15 mm, strigillose-canescent, bracteoles 1–3, linear-lanceolate.

1–6 mm;

bracteoles ovate, minute, grading into phyllaries.

campanulate, 6–8 mm.

campanulate, 3–4.5 mm.

6–13;

laminae 1.4–5.4 × 1.2–1.9 mm.

3–7;

laminae 1.5–2 × 0.5–1 mm.

14–35;

corollas 4.3–6.1 mm, lobes 0.6–1.1 mm.

4–7;

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

in 3–4 series, unequal, oblong, conspicuously striate (3–5 pronounced nerves), obtuse.

in 3 series, strongly unequal, obtuse or rounded;

mid broadly oblong, inner narrowly so.

9–190, in corymbiform arrays, compact or branches long and spreading, densely hairy throughout.

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.

(obconic) 0.8–1.7 mm (ribbed), glabrous or strigillose apically;

pappi 3–4 mm.

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

pappi 2–2.5 mm.

= 18.