Flora of North America species comparison

1–25+, erect to spreading.

basal, or basal (sometimes withering) and ± cauline, (1–)2–12(–15) cm;

largest blades ± elliptic or slightly lanceolate to ovate, ± 3-dimensional, usually 2-pinnately lobed;

primary lobes (4–)5–9(–12) pairs, ± congested, scarcely imbricate, ultimate lobes ± involute and/or twisted.

basal (often withering) and, usually, cauline, 1–6(–10) cm;

largest blades ± 3-dimensional, not to somewhat succulent;

primary lobes mostly 2–7(–10) pairs, ultimate lobes ± crowded to remote, antrorse, linear, terete.

mostly ascending to erect, 1–10 cm.

2–6 cm.

obconic to ± hemispheric.

obconic to ± cylindric or hemispheric, mostly 5–10 mm diam.

paleae (0–)3–10+ (persistent, ± phyllary-like, apices visible among mature floret buds).

5–8 mm.

4–6 mm.

longest 9–15(–17) mm;

outer usually stipitate-glandular (sometimes sparsely or obscurely, rarely eglandular) and, often, arachnoid to lanuginose and, sometimes, sparsely villous, apices usually ± squarrose, pliant.

longest 7–10 mm, ± granular-glandular and villous;

apices (all or inner) erect to incurved, usually reddish, acuminate, aristate, terete.

1–25+ per stem.

5–8 mm (usually sparsely glandular amidst other indument);

pappi: longest scales 3–6 mm.

± terete, 3–4.5 mm;

pappi usually of 4(–5) scales, longest 3–5 mm.