Flora of North America species comparison

mostly crowded over proximal 1/4–1/2 of plant heights, internodes mostly 5–25+ mm;

lobes mostly linear to filiform, 5–25(–45+) × 0.5(–1) mm.

± scattered over proximal 1/4–1/2(–3/4) of plant heights, internodes mostly 4–10 cm;

lobes mostly linear to filiform, sometimes ± oblong, 25–50(–120) × 0.5–1+ mm.

0.

8;

laminae yellow to golden, usually proximally, sometimes almost wholly, suffused with red-brown or with a red-brown spot or band, 10–20+ mm.

yellow, sometimes with red-brown nerves, throats equal to or longer than lobes.

red-brown, throats shorter than lobes.

of 5 ovate bractlets 1–3 mm.

of 6–7+ narrowly triangular bractlets 2–4 mm.

2–3 mm;

pappi usually 0, rarely 0.1–0.3+ mm.

5–5.5+ mm;

pappi 0.5–1+ mm.

= 40.

= 20.