Flora of North America species comparison

12–50 cm (stems stipitate-glandular distally).

0.5–4 cm.

3–8 cm.

none.

3-nerved, elliptic to oblong, 30–100 × 10–40 mm, tips mucronate, abaxially tomentose, adaxially glabrous.

1-nerved, linear to narrowly spatulate, 8–11 × 1–1.2 mm, tips acute, faces ± gray-tomentose.

linear, 10–30 mm, not flagged (apices obtuse to acute).

linear or oblanceolate, 7–12 mm, not flagged (apices acute).

staminate 4–8 mm; pistillate 7–9 mm.

staminate 6–8 mm; pistillate 10–11 mm.

staminate 3–4 mm; pistillate 3–4 mm.

staminate 3–5 mm; pistillate 8–10 mm.

(relatively wide) distally white or light brown (apices blunt).

distally dingy brown (apices acute-acuminate).

3–12 in loose, racemiform to paniculiform arrays.

borne singly.

1–1.5 mm, glabrous or slightly papillate;

pappi: staminate 3–4.5 mm; pistillate 4.5–7 mm.

2–3.5 mm, pubescent;

pappi: staminate 4.5–6 mm; pistillate 10–12 mm.

= 28.

= 28, 56.