Flora of North America species comparison

green, becoming whitish tan, ± ridged from leaf bases, densely puberulent.

ascending, green, becoming tan, glabrous or puberulent.

erect or closely ascending;

sessile;

blades with evident midnerves, linear to oblanceolate or narrowly oblong, 7–30 × 1.5–7 mm, flat to keeled, apices acute (often apiculate), faces glabrous or puberulent, sometimes sparsely stipitate-glandular.

ascending to spreading;

sessile;

blades usually 5-nerved, linear to narrowly elliptic or lanceolate, 7–80 × 1–12 mm, flat, margins often ciliolate, apices attenuate to spinulose, faces glabrous or scabrellous.

obconic, 9–15 × 3–5 mm.

obconic to subcylindric, 6.5–12 × 3–5 mm.

5–6;

corollas 7–11 mm, lobes 1–2.1 mm;

style branches 2.4–3.3 mm, appendages 1.5–2 mm.

10–16(–20);

corollas 5.5–8 mm, lobes 1.5–2.3 mm;

style branches 2.8–3.7 mm, appendages 1.4–1.9 mm.

20–25 in 4–6 series, in 5 strong vertical ranks, tan, often with green and/or purplish markings, midnerves evident throughout and ± expanded apically, lanceolate to elliptic, 3–8 × 0.5–1.5 mm, unequal, outer often herbaceous, inner scarious, strongly keeled, apices acute to acuminate, flat, faces puberulent.

50–60+ in 5–6(–7) series, ± in spirals, tan, midnerves greenish to brown, raised, ± expanded apically, oblong to elliptic, 1–8.5 × 1–2 mm, unequal, mostly chartaceous, apices acute to rounded, erect, ± thickened, faces glabrous, not resinous.

in densely cymiform arrays, not overtopped by distal leaves.

in usually cymiform to corymbiform, rarely racemiform arrays, not overtopped by distal leaves.

tan, subcylindric (tapering proximally), ± flattened, 5–6.5 mm, faces glabrous, sparsely glandular distally;

pappi whitish tan, 5.5–7.5 mm.

reddish brown, cylindric, 4–6 mm, ± 4-angled, faces hairy;

pappi tan, 6–7.5 mm.

= 18.

= 18 (as Haplopappus scopulorum).