Flora of North America species comparison

puberulent, glabrescent.

puberulent, glabrescent.

basal and cauline;

blades ovate-lanceolate (basal) to narrowly lanceolate (distal), 5–12+ cm × (5–)12–25+ mm, l/w = 3–5 (basal) or 8–17 (distal), abaxially glabrate (pitted, awl-shaped hairs in pits), adaxially puberulent and/or scabrellous.

mostly cauline;

blades ± lanceolate, 9–15(–25+) cm × 15–45(–60+) mm, l/w = (3.3–)4–6+, abaxially scabrellous, tomentose, or pannose, resin-gland-dotted, adaxially scabrellous, often resin-gland-dotted.

1–35 mm.

2–35 mm.

± obconic to hemispheric, 4.5–6 × 5–7 mm.

± hemispheric, 6–10 × 7–10 mm.

12–24+.

30–45(–65).

35–45+ in 5–6+ series, glabrescent, margins arachno-ciliolate, the outer lance-deltate, 1–32 mm, inner oblong to linear, 4–5(–6) mm, tips acute or rounded-apiculate.

35–60+ in 4–6+ series, sparsely tomentulose, glabrescent, margins ciliolate, the outer lanceolate to subulate, 1–3 mm, inner oblong, 7–9+ mm, tips subulate to filiform.

in open, paniculiform-scorpioid arrays.

in corymbiform to paniculiform arrays.

2–3 mm;

pappi usually whitish to stramineous (rarely purplish), outer scales or bristles 20+, 0.3–1+ mm, contrasting or intergrading with 20+, 6–7+ mm inner subulate scales or bristles.

3.5–4+ mm;

pappi fuscous to purplish, outer scales 20, 0.2–0.6+ mm, contrasting with 30–40+, 5–7+ mm inner bristles.

= 34.

= 34.