Flora of North America species comparison

1–10, ascending to erect, uniformly finely strigillose-villous distal to mid.

basal cauline nearly always withering well before flowering, linear-oblanceolate, smaller than proximal mid cauline, serrate;

proximal persisting, sometimes brown-black after senescence, often twisted;

proximal to distal numerous (100+ on tall stems), crowded, sessile, blades (bright green) linear to linear-lanceolate, 20–70 × 2–7(–10) mm, margins remotely serrulate (proximal) to entire or with 1–2 minute serrations (distal), obscurely 3-nerved, one or both faces glabrous or finely strigillose.

1–4 mm, finely strigilloso-villous;

bracteoles 0–2, linear, grading into phyllaries.

narrowly campanulate, 2.5–3.5 mm.

2–8;

laminae 1–2 × 0.25–0.5 mm.

2–4(–6);

corollas 2.3–3.5 mm, lobes 0.4–1 mm.

in 3–4 series, strongly unequal;

outer ovate, acute, inner oblong, obtuse to rounded.

100–300+, in short to elongate, pyramidal paniculiform arrays, branches recurved, secund.

(narrowly obconic) 1 mm, strigillose;

pappi 2–3 mm.

= 18.