Flora of North America species comparison

1–6+, decumbent to erect (straight), glabrous.

thin, margins entire (basal sometimes serrulate), sometimes ciliate or remotely scabrous, acute to ± obtuse, faces glabrous;

basal withering by flowering, petiolate, blades oblanceolate to spatulate, 20–115 × 2–15 mm [cult.], bases attenuate;

proximal cauline withering by flowering;

cauline subpetiolate or sessile (distal), blades oblanceolate to linear, 10–80 × 1.5–10 mm, reduced distally, bases cuneate.

glabrous, bracts linear.

narrowly campanulate, 5–9 mm.

90–110 in 4–5+ series;

corollas pink to pinkish white, laminae 1.5–2 × 0.1–0.2 mm (surpassing style branches, barely surpassing disc corollas; tubes ± 3 mm).

± 37;

corollas yellow, 4.4–5.2 mm, barely ampliate, tubes much longer than cylindric limbs, lobes lanceolate, ± 0.3 mm.

in 3–4 series, ± spreading, oblong-oblanceolate or -lanceolate to obovate, subequal to ± unequal, linear-lanceolate or linear (innermost), bases scarious, margins narrowly scarious, hyaline, erose, ciliolate, green zones (outer) foliaceous, (inner) lanceolate, apices obtuse to rounded, inner acute, mucronulate, faces glabrous.

(radiate) in narrow, paniculiform to spiciform arrays, branches often in axils of nearly every leaf, ascending.

tan, obovoid, ± compressed, 2 mm, 2–3-nerved, faces strigillose;

pappi white to yellowish, 6.3–7.5 mm.

= 14.