Flora of North America species comparison

± erect;

internodes 6–8(–25) mm, ± strigose.

± erect;

internodes 0.1–1(–5+) mm, ± villous.

basal and cauline, blades spatulate to oblanceolate, 15–60(–120+) × 2–6(–10) mm (margins strigoso-ciliate), faces usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely strigillose.

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.

hemispheric or broader, (8–)12–25+ mm diam.

± hemispheric, (12–)16–30+ mm diam.

15–55+;

corollas usually blue adaxially, laminae 12–20 mm, glabrous abaxially.

21–65+;

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

(60–)100–150+;

corollas (3.5–)4–5+ mm.

100–150+;

corollas 4–6+ mm.

(30–)60–80+ in (4–)5–6+ series, the longer ± lanceolate, (7–)12–13+ mm (l/w = 3–5), apices acute to attenuate (most hard, apiculate), abaxial faces sparsely strigillose or glabrous.

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

at tips of ± leafy stems.

± sessile or at ends of leafy stems.

3–4+ mm, faces ± hairy, hair tips forked or glochidiform;

pappi persistent;

on ray cypselae each a corona 0.1–0.5 mm;

on disc cypselae each of 8–12+ lanceolate scales 0.5–1 mm plus 1–2+ subulate to setiform scales 1–4 mm.

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

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