Flora of North America species comparison

basal or nearly so;

petiole 0.5–2(–3) cm;

blade round-ovate, (0.5–)0.8–1.5(–2) × (0.3–)0.5–1.5(–2) cm, thinly floccose to tomentose.

basal;

petiole 1–4 cm;

blade oblanceolate, (0.5–)1–4(–5) × (0.2–)0.3–0.6 cm, villous.

with involucres in small clusters 0.5–1 cm diam., green to tan or reddish;

bracts 2, linear to linear-lanceolate, acicular, 2–7 cm × 1–2.5 mm, awns slightly curved, 0.5–1 mm.

rather dense with secondary branches suppressed, grayish to reddish;

bracts 2, similar to proximal leaf blades only reduced, short-petiolate, becoming linear and aciculate at distal nodes, acerose, 1–4 cm × 2–8(–10) mm, awns absent.

1, green to tan, cylindric, 3-angled but 3-ribbed, 3–4 mm, markedly transverse corrugate, glabrate;

teeth 3, equal, 2–4.5 mm;

awns uncinate, 0.6–1 mm.

1, reddish, cylindric, not ventricose, 1.5–2(–2.5) mm, without scarious margins or if so then pinkish, thin, and restricted to basal portion of teeth, not corrugate, villous abaxially;

teeth spreading, equal, 0.5–1.5(–2) mm;

awns uncinate with longer ones 1.5–2.5 mm and anterior one mostly 2–2.5 mm, these alternating with shorter 1–1.5 mm ones.

1, included to slightly exserted;

perianth white, cylindric, 2–2.5 mm, thinly pubescent abaxially;

tepals connate ca. 2/3 their length, monomorphic, oblong, acute, entire apically;

stamens 6, slightly exserted;

filaments distinct, 0.8–1 mm, glabrous;

anthers cream, ovate, 0.4–0.5 mm.

slightly exserted;

perianth bicolored with floral tube white and tepals white to rose, campanulate, 2–3 mm, pubescent abaxially;

tepals connate 1/3 their length, monomorphic, oblong, usually rounded and erose apically;

stamens 3 or 6–9, slightly exserted;

filaments distinct, 2–2.5 mm, glabrous;

anthers cream to rose, ovate, 0.2–0.3 mm.

brown, lenticular, 2.5–3 mm.

light brown, globose-lenticular, 2–2.5 mm.

= 38.

= 38, 40, (42, 44, 46).