OregonFlora species comparison

main stem often branched; woody, herbaceous stems usually erect, unbranched below inflorescences, sometimes persistent and branched second year, glabrous or puberulent, sometimes minutely glandular distally.

linear to oblanceolate, 0.5–3 cm, usually 1-veined from bases;

surfaces minutely spiculate-puberulent, adaxially sometimes glandular, sessile.

cauline, alternate, broadly or narrowly linear to lanceolate;

margins entire;

tips acute;

surfaces glabrous to puberulent, adaxially sometimes minutely glandular or viscid, sessile.

some clusters equaled or exceeded by 1 or more of the terminal leaves;

peduncles (when present) minutely puberulent.

panicle-like arrays, glabrous to puberulent or minutely glandular;

peduncles present or not.

6–8 × 3–4 mm.

cylindric.

convex;

paleae 0.

2–3(4);

corollas 6–8 mm;

style branches included or slightly exserted.

bisexual;

corollas tubular, gradually widened distally, yellow;

lobes 5, triangular; erect or spreading, included to well exserted from involucres;

stamens well exserted;

stigma lobes included or exserted.

oblong to linear-lanceolate;

tips obtuse or acute;

surfaces glabrous or outer slightly puberulent.

in 3–6 unequal series; erect, spreading in fruit, chartaceous; midribs obscure;

surfaces glabrous or puberulent.

3–6 mm; reddish brown, densely strigose;

pappus bristles 2.5–4 mm, white or tan.

cylindric, truncate, tapering toward base, obscurely veined, pappi of numerous equal bristles, often a few outer bristles are shorter.

discoid.

ascending or erect, minutely spiculate-puberulent.

=18.