Flora of North America species comparison

1–10(–20+), erect or ascending, glabrous throughout or hairy in arrays.

1–5+, erect, puberulent.

rosettes present at flowering;

basal and proximal cauline tapering to long, winged petioles sheathing stems or nearly so, blades narrowly ovate to oblanceolate, 100–400 × 10–60 mm, thick or fleshy, entire, acute, glabrous;

mid to distal cauline usually numerous, sessile, blades lanceolate, 40–60 × 5–10 mm, reduced distally, thick or fleshy, bases sometimes subclasping, margins entire.

basal and proximal cauline tapering to long petioles, blades oblanceolate to obovate, 50–150 × 10–50 mm, margins serrate, apices acute, faces puberulent;

mid to distal cauline sessile, blades lanceolate to linear-elliptic, 10–50 × 3–10 mm, reduced distally, margins becoming entire, apices acute.

2–3 mm, glabrous or sparsely hairy.

1.5–3 mm.

3–7 mm.

campanulate, 3–5 mm.

8–17;

laminae 5–6.2 × 0.4–0.6 mm.

9–16 (orange-yellow);

laminae 3.5–4.2 × 0.4–0.6 mm.

10–22;

corollas 3–3.2 mm, lobes 0.5–1.2 mm.

(6–)10–15;

corollas 2.8–3 mm, lobes 0.5–0.8 mm.

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

in 3–4 series, appressed, unequal, linear, attenuate, puberulent.

20–500, secund, in paniculiform arrays, secund-pyramidal to broadly club-shaped, sometimes leafy proximally, at least proximal branches spreading-recurved, branches and peduncles bracteolate, bracteoles reduced distally.

15–250, not secund, in elongate, paniculiform arrays, lateral racemiform clusters short and ascending, sometimes lateral branches elongated and sharply ascending.

(obconic) 1.1–1.5 mm, moderately strigose;

pappi 3.8–4 mm (slightly clavate).

0.8–1.3 mm, glabrous or sparsely strigose;

pappi 2.2–2.6 mm.