Flora of North America species comparison

glabrous, densely stipitate-glandular.

basal blades linear to spatulate, 30–85 × 3–12 mm;

cauline blades oblong to broadly lanceolate, 12–37 × 3–9(–12) mm, gradually reduced distally; 3–5-nerved, margins entire, eciliate, stipitate-glandular, faces stipitate-glandular.

2–5 mm.

broadly campanulate, 11–22 × 8–11 mm.

11–23;

laminae elliptic, 6.5–8 × 1–3.5 mm.

27–56;

corollas narrowly funnelform, 5.5–8.5 mm, scarcely exceeding involucres, lobes erect to spreading, 0.6–0.8 mm, lengths 1/10–1/5 corollas;

anthers 2–2.5 mm;

style-branch appendages lanceolate, 0.7–1 × 0.2–0.3 mm, stigmatic lines 0.9–1.4 mm.

18–42, in 3–4(–5) series, , 1- or weakly 3-nerved, ± equal, margins eciliate;

outer and mid oblong to broadly lanceolate, 5.2–9.5 × 1–3.5 mm, stipitate-glandular, apices acute;

inner green or anthocyanic, linear, 8–13 × 1–2 mm, chartaceous proximally, margins scarious, fimbriate and/or stipitate-glandular distally, apices acute to acuminate, sometimes reflexed, faces stipitate-glandular distally.

1(–2).

linear, 2.5–5.5 mm, 8–12-nerved, faces glabrous or sparsely hairy distally;

pappus bristles 35–52, flexible.

= 18.