Flora of North America species comparison

1–5+, ascending to erect, densely and uniformly strigose, especially distally.

(grayish green) thin to firm, margins entire, apices acute, faces glabrous or strigose;

basal usually persistent, petiolate, blades oblanceolate, 50–150 × 5–12(–15) mm, bases attenuate or cuneate, margins entire, apices usually acute;

proximal cauline sessile or subpetiolate, blades oblong to narrowly obovate, 50–120 × 5–12 mm, bases attenuate or cuneate;

distal sessile, blades 30–70 × 4–10 mm, reduced distally, bases cuneate to ± rounded.

moderately to densely strigose, bracts 1–4, linear to oblanceolate.

campanulate, 4–7 mm.

(10–)15–40;

corollas violet, laminae 8–13 × 1–1.5 mm.

25–65(–80);

corollas yellow, sometimes purple-tinged, 4–6 mm, lobes triangular, 0.4–0.8 mm.

in 3–5 series, narrowly oblanceolate or linear (outer) to linear (inner), unequal, bases indurate, margins entire, green zones obovate to elliptic, apices obtuse, faces densely strigose.

in paniculiform arrays, branches ascending.

brown, cylindric to obovoid, not compressed, 2–3.5 mm, 3–5-nerved, faces hairy;

pappi whitish, 4–7 mm.

= 26, 36, 52.