Please try our next iteration of the Michigan Flora Online here. Beginning on February 1, 2023, michiganflora.net will point to this new site.

The new site offers several benefits over the existing website, including real coordinate mapping, giving a clearer view of the density of documentation as well as more precision about plant distributions and their link to landforms. We will also have the ability to update species pages more regularly, both in terms of new collections and as more existing Michigan specimens are georeferenced. In addition, we have a better photo display, and offer indented keys.

1. Disk cylindrical, longer than the rays; rays less than 2 (–2.5) cm long; pappus of 1–2 tiny teeth.

R. columnifera

1. Disk hemispherical (or even nearly spherical) to short-cylindrical, much shorter than the rays; rays ca. 2.5–3.5 (–4.5) cm long; pappus absent.

R. pinnata