Flora of North America species comparison

1–5+, ascending to erect, glabrous or sparsely puberulent.

5–10+, ascending to erect (brown), glabrous or sparsely strigose distally.

thin, margins entire or sometimes serrate, apices acute to obtuse, faces usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely hairy;

basal usually persistent, petiolate to subpetiolate, blades broadly elliptic to obovate, 30–200 × 8–25(–30) mm, bases attenuate, margins entire or sometimes serrate, apices acute to obtuse;

proximal cauline sessile or subpetiolate, blades elliptic to obovate, 35–120 × 8–25 mm, bases attenuate or cuneate to rounded, sometimes ± clasping, apices acute;

distal sessile, reduced distally, bases cuneate, apices acute.

(grayish green) firm, margins entire;

basal withering by flowering, sessile, blades (1–3 nerved) elliptic-lanceolate, 20–40 × 10–20 mm, bases attenuate, margins usually entire, rarely remotely serrate, piloso-ciliate, apices acute to obtuse, faces piloso-scabrous;

proximal cauline withering by flowering, sessile, blades oblanceolate, 20–30 × 5–13 mm, reduced distally, bases rounded, subclasping, margins entire, scrabrous, apices acute to obtuse, cuspidate-mucronate, faces glabrous or moderately strigose or ± scabrous;

distal sessile, blades oblong-lanceolate, 15–25 × 4–6 mm, bases cuneate, margins entire, apices acute, white-spinulose, faces glabrate to moderately strigose or ± scabrous.

sparsely hairy, bracts 0–3, lanceolate.

glabrous or sparsely strigose, bracts oblong-lanceolate, grading into phyllaries.

campanulate, 6–16(–20) mm.

narrowly campanulate, 6–11 mm.

15–60;

corollas violet to purple, laminae 8–18(–20) × 1–2 mm.

13–15(–36);

corollas rose-purple, laminae 8–13 × 1–2 mm.

50–150;

corollas yellow, 4–7 mm, lobes triangular, 0.4–1 mm.

16–34(–48);

corollas pink turning purple, 4.5–7.5 mm, tubes shorter than narrowly funnelform throats (sometimes thinly puberulent), lobes triangular, 8–13 mm.

in 4–6 series, oblanceolate or oblong (outer) to lanceolate or linear (inner), subequal or unequal (outer exceeding inner), bases outer foliaceous, inner indurate, margins entire, green zones elliptic to lanceolate, apices acute to rounded, faces glabrous or puberulent.

in 3–4 series, outer broadly lanceolate, flaring distally, inner linear-lanceolate, subequal, outer foliceous, bases (tan) ± indurate, margins long-piloso-ciliate, green zones foliaceous (outer), apices sometimes purplish, acute (outer) to acuminate (inner), faces glabrous or sparsely short-pilose.

borne singly or in paniculiform arrays, branches ascending, up to 25 cm.

in open, paniculiform arrays (1–5+ per branch).

brown, cylindric to obovoid, not compressed, 2.5–4 mm, 3–4-nerved, faces hairy;

pappi white to tawny, 5–8 mm.

tan to light brown, obovoid, not compressed, ± 3 mm, 5–8-nerved, faces glabrous;

pappi tan, 3.5–6 mm.

= 10, 20.