Flora of North America species comparison

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

2–25(–35) cm.

3–8 cm.

5.5–20 cm (filiform).

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

3–5-nerved, obovate to broadly oblong-spatulate, 20–75 × 15–45 mm, tips mucronate, abaxially tomentose, adaxially gray-pubescent to floccose-glabrate.

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

linear, 1–17 mm, distal flagged.

staminate 4–8 mm; pistillate 7–9 mm.

staminate 8–11 mm; pistillate 8–14 mm.

staminate 3–4 mm; pistillate 3–4 mm.

staminate 3.8–5.5 mm; pistillate 4.5–7 mm.

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

(bases green or brown) distally white.

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.

1–2 mm, papillate;

pappi: staminate 4.5–7 mm; pistillate 6–9 mm.

= 28.

= 28.