Flora of North America species comparison

1–5+, ascending to erect (often with purple or purplish brown areas, flexuous, wiry), little-branched, usually glabrous, sometimes hairy in lines distally.

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

thick (fleshy), margins entire, faces glabrous;

basal withering by flowering (new winter rosettes appearing at flowering), petiolate (petioles sheathing), blades ovate or oblanceolate, 15–20 × 5–15 mm, bases cuneate, apices rounded;

proximal cauline withering by flowering, usually sessile, blades lanceolate, linear-lanceolate or -oblanceolate, to linear, 7–80(–150) × 1–6 (–12) mm, bases attenuate, margins entire, apices acuminate to acute;

distal sessile, blades narrowly lanceolate to subulate, 10–110 × 0.5–5 mm, apices acuminate.

thin, margins entire, apices acute, faces glabrous or scabridulous;

basal persistent or withering by flowering, petiolate, blades oblanceolate, 50–150 × 10–20 mm, bases attenuate or cuneate;

proximal cauline sessile, blades elliptic to oblanceolate, 80–200 × 10–25 mm, bases cuneate, auriculate;

distal sessile, 40–80 × 7–20 mm, reduced distally.

0.6–4 (–6) cm, bracts 2–8, awl-shaped, grading into phyllaries.

sparsely to densely hairy, bracts 3–10, acute, lanceolate to linear, bases auriculate.

narrowly turbinate, 4.1–9.5(–11) mm.

campanulate, 5–10 mm.

10–25;

corollas white or pink, laminae (4.5–)5–8.5(–9.5) × 1.2–2 mm.

25–45;

corollas violet, laminae 9–15 × 1–2.5 mm.

25–45(–54);

corollas yellow becoming purplish, 3.4–6(–6.8) mm, tubes shorter than to equaling the narrowly funnelform throats (sparsely hairy at base), lobes ± erect, narrowly triangular, 0.5–0.8 mm.

(50–)70–80;

corollas yellow, 5–6 mm, lobes triangular, 0.5–0.8 mm.

in 4–5 series, lanceolate to subulate, bases indurate, rounded, margins hyaline, often tinged with purple, entire, green zones spatulate to oblanceolate-rhombic, apices acute, adaxial faces glabrous or minutely hairy distally.

in 4–5 series, narrowly oblong or linear (outer) to linear (inner), unequal, bases scarious, margins entire, sometimes proximally ciliate, green zones linear, apices acute, faces glabrous.

(1–)3–20(–40), in open, diffuse, paniculiform arrays, branches patent.

in paniculiform arrays, branches numerous, 10–45 cm.

light brown, narrowly obovoid to fusiform, sometimes ± compressed, 1.5–4(–4.5) mm, 5–6-nerved, faces sparsely strigillose;

pappi tawny to white, 3–6.1 mm.

brown, cylindric to obovoid, not compressed, 3–3.5 mm, 3–4-nerved, faces hairy;

pappi white, 4.5–5 mm.

= 16, 32.