Flora of North America species comparison

1, erect (often with purple or purplish brown areas), glabrous or glabrate, sometimes strigillose in leaf axils.

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

thin (green to dark green), margins often strigilloso-ciliolate, faces glabrous;

basal withering by flowering, long-petiolate (petiole bases sheathing), sparsely ciliate, blades ovate to oblanceolate, 10–90 × 6–14 mm, bases attenuate to cuneate, rounded, margins entire or serrulate or crenulate, apices rounded, obtuse, or acute;

proximal cauline withering by flowering, petiolate, subpetiolate, or sessile, blades narrowly lanceolate or subulate, 20–100(–200) × 1.5–10(–20) mm, bases attenuate, margins subentire, entire, or serrulate, apices acute to acuminate;

distal sessile, blades narrowly lanceolate to subulate, 5–113 × 0.5–5.5 mm, apices acuminate.

(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.

(0.2–)0.5–4 cm, bracts 4–8(–17).

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

cylindric to turbinate, 5–7(–8.2) mm.

campanulate, 4–7 mm.

16–30(–54) in 1–3 series;

corollas white, pink, or lavender, laminae 1.3–7 × 0.2–1.3 mm.

(10–)15–40;

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

4–10(–13);

corollas yello, sometimes tinged with purple, 3.4–5.2 mm, throats narrowly funnelform, lobes ± spreading to erect, narrowly triangular, 0.3–0.7 mm, glabrous.

25–65(–80);

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

in 3–5 series, broadly or narrowly lanceolate to subulate, unequal, bases indurate, margins hyaline, often purple-tinged, entire, green zones lanceolate (usually narrow, sometimes broad and covering most of distal portion), apices acute, faces glabrous.

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.

(10–) 30–100(–150), in open, diffuse, paniculiform arrays.

in paniculiform arrays, branches ascending.

light brown to purple, narrowly obovoid to fusiform, sometimes ± compressed, (1.2–)1.5–2.7(–3) mm, 5-nerved, faces sparsely strigillose;

pappi white, (3–)3.5–5.5 mm.

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

pappi whitish, 4–7 mm.

= 26, 36, 52.