Flora of North America species comparison

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

1, decumbent to erect (straight), glabrous.

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

basal persistent, petiolate, blades narrowly elliptic to obovate, 50–150 × 3–15 mm, attenuate, margins entire;

proximal cauline sessile or subpetiolate, blades linear to narrowly elliptic, 50–150 × 2–15 mm, bases attenuate or cuneate;

distal sessile, blades 30–60 × 2–10 mm, reduced distally, bases cuneate to rounded.

± fleshy, margins entire, eciliate, apices obtuse, faces glabrous;

basal deciduous at bolting, petiolate, blades oblanceolate 44–50 × 5–7 mm [cult.], bases attenuate;

proximal cauline and some distal withering by flowering;

cauline sessile, blades linear-lanceolate to spatulate, 15–55 × 1–4 mm, reduced distally, bases cuneate;

distal sessile, blades linear-lanceolate to spatulate.

sparsely hairy, bracts 0–3+.

glabrous, bracts linear.

campanulate, 5–10 mm.

campanulate, 5–8+mm.

15–40;

corollas violet, laminae 9–15 × 1–2 mm.

0.

14–47+ in 2–3+ series;

laminae 0 (corolla tubes 2–2.4 mm, shorter than style branches).

30-80(–100);

corollas yellow, sometimes becoming reddish, 4.5–6 mm, lobes triangular, 0.5–1 mm.

5–8+;

corollas yellow, 3.1–3.9 mm, lobes deltate to triangular, 0.2–0.3 mm.

in 3–5 series, narrowly oblong or linear (outer) to linear (inner), unequal, bases indurate, margins entire, green zones elliptic to lanceolate, apices usually acute, sometimes obtuse, faces glabrous or ± puberulent.

in 3–4 series, lanceolate, subequal, bases scarious, margins eciliate, green zones foliaceous (outer), apices obtuse, faces glabrous.

in corymbiform to paniculiform arrays, branches usually few.

(disciform) in ± densely paniculiform arrays.

brown, cylindric to obovoid, not compressed, 2.5–3.5 mm, ± 4-nerved, faces hairy;

pappi whitish, 5–7 mm.

purple, obovoid, ± compressed, 2.8–2.9 mm, 2–4-nerved, faces strigillose;

pappi white to yellowish white, 4.8–5.2 mm.

= 14.