Flora of North America species comparison

4–25 cm.

3–20 cm (caudices branching or rhizomes stout).

2.5–18 cm.

none.

1-nerved, narrowly spatulate to cuneate-oblanceolate, 15–65 × 6–18 mm, tips mucronate, faces abaxially tomentose, adaxially gray-pubescent (green-glabrescent with age).

3-nerved, narrowly oblanceolate, 10–60(–100) × 3–12 mm, tips acute, faces gray-woolly or tomentose.

linear, 1.5–25 mm, distal flagged.

linear, 5–40 mm, mid and distal flagged.

staminate 4–7 mm; pistillate 6–10 mm.

staminate 4.5–6 mm; pistillate 5–8 mm.

staminate 2.7–5 mm; pistillate 4.5–6.5(–7) mm.

staminate 3–4.5 mm; pistillate 2.5–4 mm.

distally white.

(proximally light brown, dark brown, or olivaceous) distally whitish or light brown.

(1–)2–8 in corymbiform to spiciform or racemiform arrays.

3–9 in corymbiform arrays.

0.9–1.4 mm, minutely papillate;

pappi: staminate 3.5–6.5 mm; pistillate 6–8.5(–9.5) mm.

1–1.6 mm, glabrous;

pappi: staminate 4–5 mm; pistillate 3.5–5 mm.

= 28.

= 28 (under A. neodioica).