Flora of North America species comparison

3–15+, branched in distal 1/2, slender and wiry, glabrous.

10–30+, simple or branched in distal 1/3, moderately stout to stout, not wiry, hairy or minutely stipitate-glandular.

basal often withering by flowering, 20–35 × 6–12 mm, pinnatifid;

cauline evenly spaced, blades oblong to linear, scalelike, 4–6 × 1–2 mm (except proximalmost), markedly reduced distally, margins usually entire, faces glabrous.

basal often persistent;

cauline evenly spaced, blades oblong, obovate, lanceolate to spatulate or narrowly ovate to obovate, 7–60 × 2–13 mm, gradually reduced distally, margins usually evenly coarsely serrate to serrulate, teeth 4–16 per side, each tipped with white bristle 0.5–4 mm, faces sparsely to densely hairy (hairs subappressed), often minutely stipitate-glandular.

minutely glandular, if stipitate, then minutely so;

bracts 5–25, imbricate, grading into phyllaries.

sparsely to densely hairy, often stipitate-glandular;

sometimes bracteate.

hemispheric (narrowed at bases), 0.5–0.8 × 1–1.2 cm.

hemispheric to campanulate, 0.5–1 × 0.6–1.5 cm.

15–25;

corollas yellow, tubes 3.5–4 mm, laminae 5–6 × 1.5–2.5 mm.

0.

25–40+;

corollas 4.8–6.3 mm.

15–50+;

corollas 5–8.5 mm.

in 5–6 series, oblong to linear-oblanceolate, 1.5–6.5 mm, apices acute, tipped by white bristle, faces minutely stipitate-glandular.

in 3–5 series, oblong to broadly lanceolate, 2–9 mm, apices obtuse to acute, tipped by white seta, faces usually densely stipitate-glandular.

1–10+.

narrowly obovoid to oblanceoloid, 1.5–2.5 mm, nerves 12–18, moderately tawny hairy;

pappi tawny, 3.5–6 mm, a few abaxial bristles to 1/3 of longest.

oblong to narrowly obovoid, 2–3.5 mm, ribs 12–24, densely whitish to tawny hairy;

pappi whitish to tawny, 3–7 mm, a few abaxial bristles to 1/3 of longest.

= 8, 16.