OregonFlora species comparison

decumbent to erect; simple or branched, tomentose.

2–6 cm;

cauline bases not clasping.

alternate;

basal and proximal cauline sometimes withering before flowering, linear to oblanceolate; ± reduced distally;

margins entire;

tips acute or obtuse;

surfaces abaxially tomentose, adaxially glabrous or lightly villous, petiolate or sessile.

bracts 4–8; most well surpassing clusters.

numerous heads in tight terminal clusters;

bracts ± united, abaxially tomentose.

2.5–3 mm.

narrowly campanulate or cylindric, spreading in fruit.

flat; smooth;

paleae 0.

membranous, sometimes red-spotted dorsally;

tips acute.

in several series; erect, lanceolate to ovate; equal or outer gradually shorter, sometimes red-spotted;

surfaces glabrous, membranous or partly herbaceous.

0.8 mm, brown;

pappi 2–2.5 mm, white.

ovoid-fusiform, minutely strigillose, pappi of unequal bristles, deciduous.

disciform, sessile.

16–26;

corollas 2–2.5 mm.

16–150, pistillate;

corollas distally purplish, elongate-filiform.

1;

corollas 2–2.5 mm.

1–7; bisexual;

corollas purple or distally purplish.

=14.