Flora of North America species comparison

± scattered over proximal 1/2–3/4 of plant heights, internodes mostly 40–100 mm;

lobes mostly linear to filiform, sometimes oblanceolate, 20–40(–50+) × 0.5–1(–2.5) mm.

crowded to ± scattered over proximal 1/2–3/4 of plant heights, internodes mostly 5–40(–60+) mm;

lobes mostly linear to filiform, sometimes oblanceolate, 5–25(–45) × 0.5–1(–2+) mm.

0.

8;

laminae wholly red-brown to purplish or mostly red-brown with distal margins yellow to orange, 7–9(–12+) mm.

yellow, often with red-brown nerves, throats shorter than lobes.

red-brown to purplish, throats shorter than lobes.

of 3–5+ ovate to oblong bractlets 1–2(–3) mm.

of 5–6(–9) linear to narrowly triangular bractlets 2–4 mm (margins hispido-ciliate).

5–8 mm;

pappi 1–2(–3) mm.

3.5–4 mm;

pappi 0.5–1+ mm.

= 22, 44.

= 18.