Flora of North America species comparison

erect, usually branched distally.

decumbent, seldom distally branched.

blades ovate-lanceolate to deltate, (8–)10–15(–20) cm, bases truncate to subcordate, margins entire or finely dentate or serrulate, faces tomentulose to pilosulous (and gland-dotted).

blades broadly ovate or elliptic to suborbiculate, 7–20 cm, bases broadly cuneate to truncate or cordate, faces silky-villous to strigillose, glabrescent.

hemispheric, 25–40 mm diam.

narrowly campanulate, 12–20(–25) mm diam.

10–14(–23), laminae (30–)50–60 mm.

5–8(–9), laminae 8–18 mm.

lanceolate, 20–30 mm (equaling or surpassing discs, tips often spreading to squarrose).

broadly linear to oblong or obovate, 12–35 mm (equaling or surpassing ray corollas).

held beyond leaves.

in axils of (and overtopped by) leaves.

8–12 mm, usually glabrous, sometimes distally strigillose;

pappi coroniform (lacerate, projected into scales on angles), (0.5–)1–2(–3) mm.

9–10 mm, glabrous;

pappi coroniform (lacerate, projected into scales on angles), 1–1.5 mm.

= 38.

= 38.