Flora of North America species comparison

1–5+, ascending or erect, glabrous or hirsute.

1–10+, decumbent to ascending (purple), sparsely or densely villous to woolly distally.

thin, margins entire, apices usually acute, faces glabrous or sparsely puberulent;

basal withering by flowering, petiolate, blades (linear-)oblanceolate to obovate, 30–200 × 4–40 mm, bases attenuate, margins entire to finely serrate, apices acute;

proximalmost cauline sometimes withering by flowering, sessile, blades broadly to narrowly oblanceolate, 40–150 × 5–30 mm, bases usually ± attenuate or cuneate;

distal sessile, blades lanceolate to oblanceolate, 25–90 × 5–30 mm, bases cuneate.

firm, margins usually entire, sometimes remotely pauci-serrulate, sparsely villoso-ciliate, apices obtuse to acute, sometimes mucronate;

basal often withering by flowering, petiolate (petioles widely winged, sheathing), blades spatulate, 5–19 × 2–4 mm, bases attenuate, apices rounded, faces glabrous or sparsely villous proximally;

proximal sessile, blades lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate or (sometimes) -spatulate, 30–50 × 3–10 mm, bases ± clasping, apices obtuse to acute, faces glabrous or sparsely villous;

distal sessile, blades lanceolate to oblong, 13–19 × 2–4.5 mm, bases clasping to cuneate, apices acute to obtuse, faces sparsely woolly, sometimes sparsely stipitate-glandular.

puberulent, bracts 3–10, lanceolate to elliptic, margins often scabrous to ciliolate.

densely villous to lanate distally, bracts 0.

campanulate, 5–8 mm.

hemispherico-campanulate, 9–12.5 mm.

15–40;

corollas violet, laminae 9–15 × 1.5–2.5 mm.

16–28;

corollas purple to violet, laminae 12–18 × 2–3.2 mm.

35–60+;

corollas yellow, 4–8 mm, lobes triangular, 0.5–1 mm.

53–55;

corollas yellow, 5.6–6.5 mm, throats funnelform, lobes triangular, 0.5–0.8 mm (red or white clavate-hairy).

in 3–5 series, oblanceolate or oblong (outer) to linear (inner), unequal to subequal (outer usually shorter than inner, if so, lengths less than 3 times widths), bases scarious (outer) less than 1/2 or sometimes wholly foliaceous, inner scarious, margins eciliate or ciliolate, green zones oblanceolate to obovate or linear (innermost), apices (outer) obtuse, (inner) acute, faces glabrous or puberulent.

in 3–4 series (dark purple), lance-oblong or oblong (outer) to linear-lanceolate or sometimes linear (inner), subequal, outer ± herbaceous, bases not indurate, margins herbaceous (outer) to narrowly scarious and erose proximally (inner), strongly purple, villoso-ciliate in green portion, green zones (inner) 1/2–2/3 of distal portions, apices acute to acuminate, inner sometimes apiculate, appressed to loose and squarrose (particularly outer), faces woolly to densely villous, sparsely to moderately stipitate-glandular.

in open, paniculiform arrays, some branches at least 20+ cm.

borne singly.

brown, cylindric to obovoid, not compressed, 3.5–4.5 mm, 2–4-nerved, faces hairy;

pappi white to tawny, 4–8 mm.

fusiform to cylindro-obconic, ± compressed, [size unknown], 4–7-nerved (faint), faces ± densely strigillose;

pappi whitish to yellowish, 5–7.2 mm.

= 48, 64, 96.