Flora of North America species comparison

densely hairy, sometimes also stipitate-glandular.

basal blades linear to spatulate, 10–50(–95) × 1.5–6 mm;

cauline blades oblong to broadly lanceolate, 15–34 × 3–7 mm, gradually reduced distally; 3–5-nerved, margins entire, ciliate, sometimes stipitate-glandular, faces eglandular or sparsely stipitate-glandular.

3–8 mm.

broadly campanulate, 8–20 × 7–12 mm.

10–16(–35);

laminae elliptic, 6.5–8.5 × 1.5–3.5 mm.

43–66;

corollas narrowly funnelform, 4.5–7.5 mm, lobes erect to spreading, 0.8–1.2 mm, lengths ca. 1/7 corollas;

anthers 2.2–2.8 mm;

style-branch appendages lanceolate, 0.8–1.1 × 0.3 mm wide, stigmatic lines 0.6–1 mm.

16–34, in 3–4 (–5) series, 1- or weakly 3–5-nerved, ± equal, margins ciliolate at least distally;

outer and mid green, ovate to oblong, 4.5–10.5 × 1.5–5.5 mm, foliaceous, apices rounded to obtuse, faces sparsely stipitate-glandular distally;

inner green or usually anthocyanic, linear to narrowly oblong, 5–9 × 0.9–4 mm, chartaceous proximally, margins scarious, often fimbriate, sometimes stipitate-glandular, apices acute to acuminate, sometimes reflexed, faces sparsely stipitate-glandular distally.

1(–2).

cylindric, 2–5 mm, 8–9-nerved, faces villous;

pappus bristles ± 34–51, flexible.

= 18.