Flora of North America species comparison

erect, green becoming whitish, glabrous, ± resinous.

ascending, green, becoming tan, glabrous or puberulent.

ascending to spreading;

petiolate;

blades mostly 3-nerved (nerves reticulate, raised), elliptic to oblanceolate or obovate, 20–80 × (7–)10–25 mm (mostly larger basally, ± reduced distally), flat, apices acute, faces glabrous, gland-dotted.

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.

cylindric to turbinate, 6.5–8.8 × 1.8–2.5 mm.

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

5(–6);

corollas 4–5 mm, lobes 0.8–1.2 mm;

style branches 2.2–2.7 mm, appendages 0.8–1.2 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.

19–24(–30) in 3–4 series, in vertical ranks, tan with apical green spot, midnerves evident distally, ovate to lanceolate, 1.5–6 × 0.7–1.5 mm, unequal, chartaceous, apices obtuse to acuminate, flat, faces glabrous.

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 condensed, cymiform arrays, not overtopped by leaves.

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

cylindric, 2.5–3 mm, faces hairy;

pappi tan, 3.1–3.9 mm.

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

pappi tan, 6–7.5 mm.

= 18.

= 18 (as Haplopappus scopulorum).