Flora of North America species comparison

± erect;

internodes 0.1–1(–5+) mm, ± villous.

± erect;

internodes 0.1–1 mm, ± strigose.

basal and cauline, ± spatulate, 6–12(–15+) × 1–3+ mm, little, if at all, fleshy or notably thickened, faces of earliest leaves glabrous or glabrate, of later leaves ± villous to pilosulous.

basal and cauline, blades ± spatulate, 5–8(–16+) × 1.5–2.5+ mm, little, if at all, fleshy, faces ± strigose.

± hemispheric, (12–)16–30+ mm diam.

± campanulate, 4–8+ mm diam.

21–65+;

corollas white adaxially, laminae 8–12(–16+) mm, glandular-puberulent abaxially.

13–21;

corollas yellow adaxially, laminae 4–6+ mm, glandular-puberulent abaxially.

100–150+;

corollas 4–6+ mm.

25–60+;

corollas 4–5+ mm.

45–60+ in 5+ series, the longer narrowly lanceolate to subulate, 9–11 mm (l/w = 7–9), apices attenuate, abaxial faces ± pilose.

24–40+ in 4+ series, the longer ± lanceolate, 4–7 mm (l/w = 2.5–5), sometimes glabrate, apices acute to attenuate, abaxial faces usually sparsely strigillose or glandular-puberulent.

± sessile or at ends of leafy stems.

± sessile.

3–4.5 mm, faces hairy, hair tips entire;

pappi readily falling, of 25–30 subulate to setiform scales 5–8 mm (± connate basally).

2–2.5 mm, faces hairy, hair tips glochidiform;

pappi persistent;

on ray cypselae 10–12 lanceolate to subulate scales 0.5–1+ mm;

on disc cypselae 20+ subulate to setiform scales 4–5+ mm.

= 18.