Flora of North America species comparison

greenish, becoming purplish or yellowish, unbranched or sparingly branched distal to bases, strigose.

blades 3–5-nerved, ovate to elliptic or broadly lanceolate, 25–70 × 8–35 mm, scabrellous.

10–50(–70) mm.

narrowly to broadly campanulate, 9–18 × 10–20 mm.

6–15(–21);

corollas usually scarlet red or maroon, sometimes yellow, laminae linear to spatulate, 8–25 mm.

12–50;

corollas yellow, 5–6 mm, lobes ca. 1 mm.

obovate to oblong, becoming scarious, glabrous, apices rounded, usually entire or erose, sometimes ciliate.

7–10 mm, 3-angled (ray) or compressed (disc), ribbed, ciliate;

pappi usually of 1 stout awn 4–6 mm (from shoulders of cypselae).

red to purple or yellow, apices obtuse, erose or subentire.

= 24.