Flora of North America species comparison

ascending, green becoming tan, glabrous, resinous.

ascending to spreading;

sessile;

blades with faint midnerves, linear-filiform, 10–40 × 0.5–2 mm, flat or sulcate, sometimes twisted, margins glabrous or hirtellous, apices acute to apiculate, faces glabrous.

cylindric to turbinate, 5–8 × 1.5–2.5 mm.

4–5;

corollas 3.7–5.5 mm, lobes 0.8–1.5 mm;

style branches 2–2.4 mm (exserted beyond spreading corolla lobes), appendages 0.5–0.8 mm (shorter than stigmatic portion).

15–20 in 3–4 series, often in vertical ranks or spirals, mostly tan, ± greenish apically, midveins rarely visible, ovate or oblong to elliptic, 1.5–5 × 0.8–1.4 mm, unequal, mostly chartaceous, sometimes ± keeled, apices acuminate to cuspidate (cusp often recurved or falcate), faces glabrous or with a few long, crooked hairs proximally and near margins, resinous.

in densely cymiform arrays (4 cm wide), distal leaves reaching into but not overtopping arrays.

reddish brown, turbinate, 3–4 mm, faces densely hairy;

pappi tan, 3.7–5 mm.

= 18.